Hi All, I've started on the ink for inkjet PCBs. I found an Epson MSDS. This is for T073 pigment ink. I'm actually using MISPRO but couldn't find their MSDS....
I'm still working on getting a 100% reliable test platform, but my preliminary tests indicate that preheating the board seems to prevent pooling of the ink....
Hi All, I had a long experimenting session last night. The following definately applies to the T50 and the Artisan 50 when using the CD tray and probably many...
Well, I've learned a bit about the PW sensor mounted on the bottom of the printhead, and how the printer senses the paper. At initialization it apparently...
The more I look at this stuff the more confusing it gets. My current setup prints perfectly with the Printfab driver, but when I switched to the Windows...
Hi All, I know that I said in a recent post I would be moving on in my experiments with PCB printing but I've stood back and looked at what I have done so far...
I am a member of several technical groups and the situation is the same: A steady "noise" level and then intermixed with very good information from ...
Hi all, I'm trying the 'rich text format' for this so let me know if it comes out badly in your browser. This is going to be a living document. I'll post bits...
http://www.delorie.com/pcb/pbm2escp2.zip DJ Delori wrote a utility to control his Epson Inkjet printer when printing PCB films. This program reads PBM files...
Hi Fellow engineers Has anyone try coverting the epson C62 to print onto PCB We have had a good look at it, there very robust and a cheap machine, got to be...
Ingo, I have lost your email with details of a Ngen user in Australia. Since I use webmail, my usual local disk backup hasn't included it. Could you please...
just added two photos in our specialprint folder; the last two ones on the second page. Etchmasks and soldermask including legends all done via inkjet Ingo I...
Hi all, I just noticed in Gutenprint that it says my T50 printer can do 5760 x 2880 dpi. I thought 5760 x 1440 dpi was the limit (and so do Epson). So I...
Hi All, I have uploaded a test image '4 corner block test.tiff' (see group files) that contains a test pattern which gives a definite indication of your...
After several days of experimentation, I think I can make the following observations. 1 - It does work, using only 1 printing pass. 2 - It is ESSENTIAL that...
I think I can say that preheating all except the smallest of boards will not work reliably with Mispro to prevent pooling - the board cools too much. When my...
This is not easy to do. My aluminum carrier has the same problem as the fr4 one. The heater causes a buckling from the expansion of the heated center that...
Has anyone tried those two inks and etched with CuCl + H2O2? If so What was the result? I have googled this and so far have not found anything conclusive. ...
My first experiment with using a flat kapton heater to heat the pcb during printing is promising. I didn't have a temperature controller hooked to it, but even...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Inkjet_PCB_Construction group. File :...
Hi Jeff, I haven't started my DPI investigation yet. I'm still studying the ESCP/2 print formats. So a lot of what i'm about to say is unchecked. This is what...
The Inkaid experiment is a failure. The Inkaid does seem to stop pooling, but the Mispro just prints on a "skin" of Inkaid. So when you etch, after curing in...
Here's a link to a flat heater that I hope to use to keep the pcb hot while it is printing. <http://www.mcmaster.com/#polyimide-(kapton)-heaters/=c66wrj>. I'm ...
I've put the N-Gen aside for now and went back to Mispro. I'm using Mispro yellow in all 6 carts of my R260. Pooling seems to be the biggest problem in getting...
Hello I have found a very nice shopping website---www.ofenno.com---and would like to share it with you. The prices of the products on this website is very...
Steve, As you know, I'm really into experimentation. The test PCB that is on our group home page inspired me to get into this inkjet technique. It is kind of a...
Has anyone in the group tried the MisPro Heat Transfer Inks from Inksupply.com? Here is the link: http://www.inksupply.com/heat_transfer_ink.cfm They appear...
With all this ongoing work on testing printers and the super good info from Ingo, I added a Test Target for PCB traces to my old US Air Force 1951 standard...
Someone new here asked a question, inadvertently hijacking a thread so I'm posting it here as a separate thread: I am new here so bear with me. I would like to...
