Wow, great deal. $300 rebate if you buy the printer and $10 worth of paper!
Aaron Turner
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Boman33 <boman33@...> wrote:
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> A year ago or so I started to test multiple printers, transparencies and
> ink
> settings but I got too busy to finish and I am still too busy to continue
> right now. I measured opacity vs. wave length to eventually select the best
> combination for creating artwork for photo resist development.
>
> Test artwork:
>
> http://www.vinland.com/USAF-1951.html
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> Scroll down to the bottom for the PCB test pattern
>
> With that as a background, I recently got a new printer and just printed my
> standard test print without any tweaking and it looks very promising. It is
> a photo printer and it has three black-gray-light gray inks besides all the
> colors.. I have not done any measurements or other tests so no promises.
> It also looks like it can print 5 mil lines/spaces.
>
> Printer: Canon Pixma Pro-100.
>
> Regular price $500, Amazon sells it for $400 with a rebate of $200 and an
> extra $50 if one signs up for their credit card. So at the end I paid $150,
> got free second day shipping.
>
> As for Phil's comments on lack of laser transparency accuracy would suggest
> to use an inkjet instead. Going through the laser fuser's high temperature
> can easily distort the artwork.
>
> Also it is critical to get sufficient opacity that a single layer artwork
> can be used.
>
> Bertho
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