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Subject: Re: Standard inkjet inks for etch resist?

From: "Steve" <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2004-03-08

There are quite a few kind of "tshirt inks", all with different
characteristics.

I make imprinted tshirts, I'll see what mine does on a PCB.

Steve

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Maxwell" <wrmaxwell@b...>
wrote:
> I am relatively new to this group and apologise if this possibility
has been
> mentioned previously. Some 10 years ago, a group of local amateur radio
> operators, all working in a Government communications laboratory, were
> having considerable success in printing PCB patterns directly onto the
> copper, using the ink used to print logos, slogans etc on to
T-shirts. They
> put the ink into the pens of the old flat-bed plotters. The
laboratory has
> long since closed and the group dispersed, so I cannot now follow
that idea
> up. Has anybody in this group tried T-shirt ink in an inkjet printer?
>
> Bill