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Subject: Re: Direct Printing : how to begin

From: "bagmik" <bagmik@...>
Date: 2007-10-13

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:52:15 +0100, teknochaman <teknochaman@...>
> wrote:

> My theory is that one needs high resolution or a printhead with many
> nozzles or both to make it work. The old epsons i tried did not look
> promising, the printout came out in individual lines. But it's only a
> theory. Still seems safer to me to start with a printer similar to
> something known to work.
>

I recently discovered that people were printing PCB directly on copper
So I modified an old EPSON Stylus Color 600 to give it a try. Results
were poor, see photo album. I wonder how to avoid individual lines ?


> The initial results were with mispro, especially the yellow. More
recently
> we have had good reports about original epson inks.
>
> ST
>
I will give a try to the mispro inks. By the way, wath's the number of
the epson inks that give good results ?