I've had MIS pigmented inks in quite a few Epson printers, and clogs
are not much more often than using dye inks, and a lot less often than
Epson Durabrite pigmented.
You can't use a fast drying marker ink in a print head. Inks for
inkjet printing are specifically formulated to 1. dry more slowly so
as to not clog the heads and 2. not spread much after squirted onto
the paper/media. In desktop printers, they are water based with
alcohol and glycols added.
Many marker and pen inks are based on other solvents and are made to
dry very quickly.
Are you just trying to find alternatives in case MIS changes their ink?
Steve Greenfield
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Bora Dikmen <bora_dikmen@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I made a try with "edding T25 refill ink permanent
> marker" on my Epson R220. I emptied the MISPRO
> cartridge and filled it with the ink shown below.
>
> http://www.edding.com/286_343635_DEU_HTML.htm
>
> It is both etch and water resistant permanent ink.
>
> Here below the results:
>
> 1-) Printer is terrible cologned. No more usable.
> 2-) Printed image on the PCB was terrible.
> 3-) It was just me the stupid victim :-)
>
> We should use MISPRO inks even they also clogs the
> printer head.
>