I am about to dive back into the ink jet printing concept for etch resist application. It seems as though the Magenta and Yellow inks are working the best for MisPro and for Epson inks. I have an Epson R220 that is going to be my test machine. Not wanting to invest in yet more ink and more refillable cartridges and all that stuff, I am thinking I will run over to cartridgeworld and have them fill up a black cartridge with either a mix of magenta and yellow, or one or the other if they complain. The reason for doing it this way, I can bypass the problem with the printer complaining about the wrong "Color" in the wrong slot and get past all the stuff with the goofy chips on the cartridges. My PCB layout software doesn't allow me to select which color to print with and I have not had any luck going to a PDF first, then changing the colors there. Does this all seem to make sense and seem like a reasonable direction to go? I have taken the printer partially apart a while back and put it back to gether again. I hope to get a bit further this weekend if time allows. There is a straight through path on this printer with the exception of "Something" on the right rear area that I have yet to find out what it is. Hopefully that thing can be moved and the plastic just cut away to allow for clearance to feed a full, 8 1/2" wide sheet of PCB material through in that area. It also seems as though adding a heater is a good idea to allow for faster and better drying of the inks, so that too will be considered along the way. Any suggestions for a heater that could heat the entire width of the PCB board and allow for temperature control? Chris
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Ink Jet refilling by Cartridge World
2007-02-10 by lcdpublishing
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