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From: "lcdpublishing" <lcdpublishing@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:12 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Epson R220 PCB printing Report #1


>I would suspect that you would be better off finding/using a UV
> cured Ink. My large HP Printer (24" wide) uses UV cured ink but
> being a big and expensive printer, I have not yet had the courage to
> try and run a PCB through it.
>
> With that system, if I understand it correctly, the print head puts
> the ink on the paper, and next to the print head is a UV light
> source that cures it instantly.
>
> Some day I would like get the guts up to run a PCB through it, but
> that won't happen anytime soon I am afraid.

That's how industrial ink jet printers work, for printing on all sorts of
materials, including PCBs.

Leon