Please change the subject line and delete the irrelevant stuff. Or
just start a new thread. Searching the archives is difficult enough
without hijacked threads.
I think it was Stefan who tried this in an HP printer, but it's a
bubblejet and a bubblejet printer uses heat to vaporize some of the
solvent in the ink, which drives a blop of ink out of the print head.
He said it immediately clogged, so it probably hardened the Future
Floor polish that he tried.
I have an Epson 800 (black only model) that I intend to try as the
Epson printers use a piezo drive head. As this does -not- use heat, I
have hopes that it may work but I'm not holding my breath.
Of all the desktop printers, Epson is the only one that uses Piezo.
The rest use bubblejet.
Steve
just start a new thread. Searching the archives is difficult enough
without hijacked threads.
I think it was Stefan who tried this in an HP printer, but it's a
bubblejet and a bubblejet printer uses heat to vaporize some of the
solvent in the ink, which drives a blop of ink out of the print head.
He said it immediately clogged, so it probably hardened the Future
Floor polish that he tried.
I have an Epson 800 (black only model) that I intend to try as the
Epson printers use a piezo drive head. As this does -not- use heat, I
have hopes that it may work but I'm not holding my breath.
Of all the desktop printers, Epson is the only one that uses Piezo.
The rest use bubblejet.
Steve
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Phil" <phil1960us@y...> wrote:
> I am still interested in an older thread on using inkjet printers to
> directly print resist. I think the thread just died out but it sure
> seems to me that if we could find the right kind of ink, it ought be
> a really great way to get very quality/repeatable etch masks on
> copper. I would not at all mourn the passing of the transfer
> process...
>
> I've got an old inkjet gathering dust that I may save from my
> robotics experiments...