First, take a look at the results, the 3 photos in album "Stylus Color 600 original ink on copper" that I uploaded to get sure you wanna try.
I will probably try the Mispro inks, don't know yet where to find them, I'm living in Belgium. But I fear that results won't be better with this old printer.
So I'll do like others, find an used C84 or C87 to modify and try to get as good results as they do.
Nevertheless, here are some pictures with a description on how I modified the color 600.
On the front view (Pic 01) ,
- remove the cover (four screws) and the ouput bin,
- remove the platte which hold the 'pizza' (Pic 08) there are two screws,
On the back view (Pic 02), remove the automatic sheet feeder (two screws on each side), to do this, you
have to remove the top gear with a spring first, see pic 11
The print head assembly has to be dismounted to be able to remove a plastic part (Pic 09) from the paper input.
- on the top view (pic 12), remove the platte that hold the printhead ribbon cable, two screws,
- on the back, remove all the pressure roller (pic 13),
- on the left side view (pic 11), remove the three visible screws, there is a fourth screw on the front left side
- once all this done, remove the plastic part (pic 09)
- then reassemble all the stuff back
The automatic sheet feeder sensor has to be put back in place. Without it, the printer will always think there is a paper jam
Keep an eye on how the sensor is assembled to be able to reassemble it later
To do this, cut a part of the sheet feeder (pic 10) and about 5 cm (2") of the black axle.
Mount the sensor in place(Pic 03 - Pic 04)
As you can see, I used some plastic parts to keep the axle in place.
The paper sensor on the left side of the rear view (pic 05) has to be modified. The two lever form an angle of about 45°
I cut the axle in the middle and attach back the two pieces together with heat shrinking tube to form an angle of about 20°.
This modification is needed because the plastic part (pic 09) in the paper input has been removed and the paper sensor lever
doesn't rise enough anymore.
To be able to use 1.5mm tick copper clad, the print head need to be rised. This is easily done with the blue paper tickness lever
and the two black adjustment lever (pic 06), one on each side of the print head rod.
The input tray if made with a sheet of epoxy 2mm tick (pic 02) with a cutout for the paper lever sensor (pic 05)
To feed the copper clad, fix it with tape on a sheet of paper with a cutout of 9cm (pic 07). The printer expect a delay before
the paper pass on the paper sensor.
Things still to be done:
- find an ink that print correctly on copper and which is etch resistant (Mispro inks / original Epson ink ?)
- actually the input tray is kept in place with double sided glued tape, will use screws
- put an output tray to keep the copper clad horizontaly and avoid collision with the print head
- put a guide on the input tray to be able to feed the copper clad always the same way for double sided PCB
I got problem to attach the pictures to this mail (size too big) so I created a photo album in th group - Epson Stylus Color 600 mod
DJ Delorie <
dj@...> wrote:
"bagmik" <
bagmik@...> writes:
> So I modified an old EPSON Stylus Color 600 to give it a try. Results
Hey! I've got one of these on the shelf; the black ink was dead last
time I used it (long ago) but the color inks at least worked (then,
will have to get it working again). Do you have tips or photos of
your conversion?
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