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Subject: Re: Printing resist directly onto PCBs

From: "wheedal99" <wheedal@...>
Date: 2003-09-07

Actually, I've tried it with a citizen printiva 700. Didn't work
very well. The copper is a huge heatsink and I couldn't get the
printhead hot enough to transfer the wax. Maybe preheating the
copper clad would have helped. Anyway seemed to be a bust with that
one anyway (for me). I'm certainly not discouraging anyone else from
trying. :')
Heck, anyone near Pocatello, ID USA is welcome to take this one and
try to make it work... hehe... (no, I won't mail it...)
-Dal


> 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.