Homebrew PCBs

Direct Inkjet Printing is QUITE the topic. I've been thinking about it 
since I saw the first "Straight Through" printer. I just found this...

http://www.ryanrss.com/2TJetCompare.html

$10,995 for a commercial unit!!! If enough industries get on board with 
this technology to keep the demand up we could see that price drop even 
faster in the next couple of years. I paid $1250.00 for my Technics CD 
Player. Now you can get a player for $50.00

 Seeing Brother in the list of companies making them is a good sign!
That increses the likelihood of it jumping from the pro market to the 
consumer devision. I can see the marketing..."Kids....make you own T-
Shirts at home"..."Mommy...I WANT one !!! "

Having said all that...I'm still a DIY guy at heart. Turning a $50.00 
Epson printer into a PCB making machine is an exciting concept.

Cheers....Dean.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:00:23 +0200, Dean Batute <phix_it@...> wrote:

>  Turning a $50.00
> Epson printer into a PCB making machine is an exciting concept.


Turning a $1 "i'm glad you came and take it off my hands" printer into a  
PCB making machine is even better ;-).
I bet 90% of "dead" C84 out there are easy to fix. The vacuum pump hose is  
clogged on all of them.
Actually one should make a business of turning dead C84's into working  
ones....

OK a decent set of carts and chips is about $20 with shipping and the ink  
is quite pricy too...
So you are probably right with $50...


ST

Printing dye inks on textiles is a totally different and mature system than
printing pigment inks on copper.

I agree that if there is a market, a product will be made. They even make an
inkjet sytem to print photos on birthday cakes!

 I'm not sure there are any cost benefits for an inkjet pcb system over the
current commercial methods trhat would drive the development cycle.

Myc

On 7/21/06, Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
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> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:00:23 +0200, Dean Batute <phix_it@...> wrote:
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> >  Turning a $50.00
> > Epson printer into a PCB making machine is an exciting concept.
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> Turning a $1 "i'm glad you came and take it off my hands" printer into a
> PCB making machine is even better ;-).
> I bet 90% of "dead" C84 out there are easy to fix. The vacuum pump hose is
> clogged on all of them.
> Actually one should make a business of turning dead C84's into working
> ones....
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> OK a decent set of carts and chips is about $20 with shipping and the ink
> is quite pricy too...
> So you are probably right with $50...
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> ST
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>  I agree that if there is a market, a product will be made. They even make an
>  inkjet sytem to print photos on birthday cakes!


My asda, (walmart owned uk store) has a cake printer but they dont
print the cake, they print a piece of ice-ing impregnated paper etc
and stick it on, it may actually just be a very thin sheet of icing.

Its an epson printer, you can see it if you lean over the counter.....

I've always wanted to do mugs/plates but its costly.

Lez

At 07:56 PM 7/21/2006, you wrote:

>Printing dye inks on textiles is a totally different and mature system than
>printing pigment inks on copper.

You are right: I've sent to a $10k textile printing machine, using 
Epson heads, two bare PCB,
they've printed a test pattern and corroded. Test failed.
Cristian