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Subject: Printing resist directly onto PCBs

From: "Steve" <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2003-09-06

Sorry, still haven't found time to test Future in that Epson 800.

However: I mentioned before the possibility of using those wax ribbon
CD printers for this. Casio now makes a model that costs only $90.
Maybe all it would take is a hack of the driver (Linux, anyone?) and a
slight modification of the tray to allow printing without a hole in
the center.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=469164&sku=C104-4000%20P

Failing that, cut your PCBs out in the shape of a CD. ;') Then you
could automate it with a stack fed into one of the autofeeder CD
thermal printers. Of course, that becomes so expensive there are other
better options.

Steve Greenfield