I have tryed regular ink jet ink on a pbc and even put it in the oven to dry it, it would not get hard, soooo think it will wash off in the etchant,it came off when i riensed the board with water. the ink i baked was for bubble jet printers, havent tryed piezo ink. I found that the ink (mop&glo mixture) that i had in the cart had drained out during the night. so it is getting through the heads ok. it printed this morning.i had left windex with ammonia on the head park pad. when i first start printing the ink globs up and doesnt print right, buuut after the ink gets low or nearly out it prints ok. not dark and heavy but ok. so i am now thinking my mixture is to thin. i finally printed on a pcb this morn and it left a LIGHT image on the board, didnt run or glob. will etch it to check the results. the old epson stylus color II has hung in there with me, it has software for 95 but works great on 98se. it doesnt have the options of the later printers, but who cares if it will print on a pcb.it will go to 720 dpi. the feed works great but need something to alighn the board as it prints through, that will be no big hassel. had to adjust the printer head height as high as would go and then cut the paper support rollers and knots on the front off to get the pcb low enough to feed through with out the heads hanging on the board. now if i can just get the ink right think i will try mop&glo and put a small amount of acrylic black artist paint in the mixture and see the outcome. mebo
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Re: Standard inkjet inks for etch resist?(yeeeehaaa))
2004-03-13 by pebo festus
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