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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Practicality (was Zoran to ink)

From: Lez <lez.briddon@...>
Date: 2006-06-01

On 01/06/06, Steve <alienrelics@...> wrote:
> Theoretically if someone writes a shareware driver or interface to the
> driver that allows a full area rectangle to be printed with the CD
> tray, it could also handle a different ICC profile to make it print
> using yellow and magenta even though the PCB/CAD program is sending it
> as black.

Well I am hoping that all epsons behave like mine and will print
anywhere on the tray, like I said, mine would not, but it was not the
printer, it was the software, dumping the software and just sliding
the tray in and selecting a4 in MS paint let it print anywhere I
wanted.

as to the icc idea, that would be good.

> Although I'm far from rolling in money, under $100 seems very cheap
> for this kind of thing. The printers are often found with rebates, I
> can import inexpensive autoreset refillable cartridges and build my
> own bulk ink system.

I have looked into this, and have a chip resetter, but I could not get
any spongeless carts in the uk at a sensible price (hey its an empty
plastic cube, it should cost $2 not $20)

I have toyed with idea of just removing sponge and injecting ink to
see what happens

but at the moment a ciss seems to be a dream until I can learn enough
to build one, or find one cheap I can afford.
(and somewhere in the UK that sells ink like mispro)