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I am about to dive back into the ink jet printing concept for etch
resist application. It seems as though the Magenta and Yellow inks
are working the best for MisPro and for Epson inks. I have an Epson
R220 that is going to be my test machine.

Not wanting to invest in yet more ink and more refillable cartridges
and all that stuff, I am thinking I will run over to cartridgeworld
and have them fill up a black cartridge with either a mix of magenta
and yellow, or one or the other if they complain. The reason for
doing it this way, I can bypass the problem with the printer
complaining about the wrong "Color" in the wrong slot and get past all
the stuff with the goofy chips on the cartridges. My PCB layout
software doesn't allow me to select which color to print with and I
have not had any luck going to a PDF first, then changing the colors
there.

Does this all seem to make sense and seem like a reasonable direction
to go?

I have taken the printer partially apart a while back and put it back
to gether again. I hope to get a bit further this weekend if time
allows. There is a straight through path on this printer with the
exception of "Something" on the right rear area that I have yet to
find out what it is. Hopefully that thing can be moved and the
plastic just cut away to allow for clearance to feed a full, 8 1/2"
wide sheet of PCB material through in that area.

It also seems as though adding a heater is a good idea to allow for
faster and better drying of the inks, so that too will be considered
along the way. Any suggestions for a heater that could heat the
entire width of the PCB board and allow for temperature control?

Chris