Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...> wrote:
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> The second experiment was to use a regular inkjet printer. I rigged
> up a printer and it was nicely feeding a PCB. I printed with
> standard ink and it printed nicely except for it was a water soluable
> ink. I kept changing inks, all that ammonia stuff and the printhead
> died. The nice thing is that I chose a printer with a printhead in
> the ink cartridge. I dropped the project due to lack of etch
> resisting ink.

by the way, in researching refilling my canon inkjet tanks I came
across waterproof ink for the BCI-3e tanks.
http://www.alotofthings.com/catalog/bulkinks_canon_bci-3.html
Look at the top two items.

I have no idea if works as a resist but waterproof is a good first
step. My printer (pixma 4000) doesn't have a straight through paper
path so it wouldn't matter to me. These tanks go with a lot of canon
printers so maybe there is one that has the right paper path.