Homebrew PCBs

Stefan, I feel your "Pain".  This morning I jamed up my nice new CD 
printer big time. I checked and re-checked to make sure the PCB 
would go through with the tray and such.  It didn't, everything 
jammed up.  In total frustration and disgust, I turned it off, 
walked away from it and went back to the finer things  in life - 
programming.

I will deal with the printer when I have a very level head cause if 
I don't, it will end up under the tires of my truck :-(


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan" 
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> Things are going badly with this printer.
> 
> After very good success with cleaning yesterday i wanted to try on 
PCB  
> today.
> Nozzle check is very bad.
> I dunno what happened.
> 
> 
> But the chip thing is criminal. A single cleaning cycle will take 
out a  
> quarter of the cartridge! That's ridiculous!
> I dunno how i can possibly work with this sh**. I mean i need to 
pull the  
> carts to reset, but that will require cleaning to get the air out, 
this in  
> turn takes most of the ink count away. I'm really fed up with 
that  
> nonsensical chip crap.
> 
> I noticed the chip contacts seem to go through only a few traces 
on one  
> side of the flexible ribbon cable to the head. I think it would 
be  
> possible to cut this from the rest of the cable and mount the 
chips  
> separately in a stationary setup. This would allow me to reset 
them  
> without pulling the carts.
> 
> Any ideas if it would be possible to connect a micro that listens 
for the  
> readout command and says "100% you stupid a**" each time it is 
asked?  
> There is just _NO WAY_ i'm paying $60 for a set of auto reset 
chips,  
> that's ridiculous.
> 
> As good as things looked yesterday, i wish i hadn't touched the 
printer  
> today, it's really killing my mood when everything goes wrong. I 
need to  
> sort the bloody chips before i can find out why it isn't printing.
> 
> 
> ST
>