Hi All, I spent couple of months(~4 months) to design my own flat bed inkjet printer and finally I could get some printouts. It is based on Epson inkjet head and X-axis mechanics. I designed required drive electronics, head drive signals, servo control, frame buffer and micro controller to communicate and manage the circuit. On PC side I developed RIP (raster Image Processor) that is used to convert bmp image to the printers frame buffer format and interface program to control the printer. In this design all time critical jobs are done by fpga. Microcontroller supports minimum basic commands such as x/y positioning, servo control, frame buffer download, piezo drive waveform download and activate inkjet firing, it is also responsible to do USB interface. The remaining control is done by the control program running on PC side. I did only a few experiments and saw that 4/4 (trace width / space) is possible to do if I can do uniform etching ( under etching is also an issue). I'll try to upload printed image and original bmp image used during printing. As you'll see original image is perfect. Later I'll do some performance tests and try to post the results. This printer can do 720x720 dpi and images that I'll upload are printed at that resolution. Uploaded images will be under http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/files/Epson_inkjet_Volkan/ Note: I don't know whether the details of the design is an off topic or not for this group. I need feedback from Steve. Cheers, Volkan
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Homemade flatbed inkjet pcb printer
2008-04-06 by v_sahin
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