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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Looking for a hi quality laser printer for photoresist pcbs..

From: Russell Shaw <rjshaw@...>
Date: 2013-01-08

On 08/01/13 09:27, Hikmet wrote:
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "cunningfellow" wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Greenfield wrote:
>>>
>>> It is easier and cheaper to get high resolution
>>> inkjet than to get high resolution Laser.
>>
>>>> r.d. terramir wrote:
>>>> inkjets don't do a very good job on transparencies
>>>> and the printout tend to be too opaque.
>>
>>>>>
>>
>> I agree with Steve on this.
>>
>> a $50 inkjet can do a fine job on proper trannies
>> (if it has UV blocking ink)
>>
>> a $2000 laser printer can just compete on trace/space
>> but is not as good on large fills
>>
>> It takes a medium car priced laser printer to beat
>> an inkjet for making phototools. Then only some of
>> them. We have had expensive printers that have even
>> failed to do as good as job as a $500 printer.
>>

> "UV blocking ink" is that a special ink or default inks will block uv's.
>
> I have epson l800 and it has dye based ink.

I'm using the normal black dye ink in an old Epson Stylus 400 printer.

The "real" laser-raster UV printouts use a yellowish ink.