Homebrew PCBs

Has anyone ever tried to make a printed circuit board by printing a reverse
image onto a sheet of aluminium foil [with an ink jet printer], then plating
copper onto the exposed trace? This sheet would be epoxied [copper side
down] onto a  thin  fiber glass board, allowed to set and then caustic soda
would eat the aluminium away leaving the copper trace behind.

Sound feasible?  See any obvious problems with the approach?

Surf


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