Homebrew PCBs

If this printer is a wax ribbon type, then the first question to ask 
yourself is "Does the wax transferred provide enough resist to work 
in the etching bath?"

Anyone out there tried the wax ribbon as a resist. There are a lot 
of photprinters out there now with wax ribons?.

Myc



--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Lez <lez.briddon@g...> wrote:
>
> Just saw the perfect direct to boad printer.........
> 
> 
> Its a medion 160 photo printer in a store called aldi, uses full 
width
> wax based ribbons, so can do boards upto 7*5 like photo sized etc, 
on
> a special when its gone its gone offer for 69gbp, looks like I was 
a
> week late but had to go so I jumped into car and drove over to get
> one, had a good look at it etc, comes with 3 wax based ribbons of 
the
> usual secondary colours, emm I thought just put one ribbon at a 
time
> in get 3 times the life of the ribbons!
> 
> Then I spotted the problem, the paper exit, it was almost flat feed
> all the way through, right to the last 1 or 2 cm where it drops 
down
> to feed into the tray........Grr....
> 
> If I was back in a job and had some spare cash I would buy one and
> take a saw to it etc and experiment, but cant afford to lose the 
money
> at the moment
> 
> 
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> 
> Lez
>