Homebrew PCBs

If you can try to tell the printer to print in
grayscale. But the image may not be dark enough.

Bob Macklin
Seattle, Wa.
--- asiido <ebay@...> wrote:

> I bought an epson R300 printer, and a Mispro yellow
> spongeless cart.
> Now I have tried to make PCBs with it but no
> success.
> 
> I've tried to prepare the pcb with Bora's HCL
> method, and sandpaper
> but seems like the problem isn't this because the
> results are equally bad.
> 
> I tried to cure the ink in an oven, and with a heat
> gun but again, the
> results were equally bad.
> 
> After etching, the board shows just a faint image of
> the layout I
> tried to get, almost all the copper is gone and just
> small dots remain
> so that I can see the layout. I etched with a strong
> ferric chloride.
> 
> I don't know if the problem is printing. Because
> I've heard that the
> mispro YELLOW is the best one, I bought a yellow
> cartridge. At first I
> wanted to install that in the black ink position but
> my printer won't
> allow me to do so. So I have to export my design
> from EAGLE editor as
> an image, and I change the color in Paint shop pro
> to Yellow...
> 
> Please help, I really need to get this system
> working because it
> allows so much faster production of PCBs.
> 
> 
> 
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