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I have tryed regular ink jet ink on a pbc and even put it in the
oven to dry it, it would not get hard, soooo think it will wash off
in the etchant,it came off when i riensed the board with water. the
ink i baked was for bubble jet printers, havent tryed piezo ink. I
found that the ink (mop&glo mixture) that i had in the cart had
drained out during the night. so it is getting through the heads ok.
it printed this morning.i had left windex with ammonia on the head
park pad. when i first start printing the ink globs up and doesnt
print right, buuut after the ink gets low or nearly out it prints ok.
not dark and heavy but ok. so i am now thinking my mixture is to
thin.
i finally printed on a pcb this morn and it left a LIGHT image on the
board, didnt run or glob. will etch it to check the results. the old
epson stylus color II has hung in there with me, it has software for
95 but works great on 98se. it doesnt have the options of the later
printers, but who cares if it will print on a pcb.it will go to 720
dpi. the feed works great but need something to alighn the board as
it prints through, that will be no big hassel. had to adjust the
printer head height as high as would go and then cut the paper
support rollers and knots on the front off to get the pcb low enough
to feed through with out the heads hanging on the board.
now if i can just get the ink right
think i will try mop&glo and put a small amount of acrylic black
artist paint in the mixture and see the outcome.
mebo