Ryan Pourcillie hacked his inkjet printer to have a straight through path so that he could print resist directly onto a copper clad board to make a custom PCB. He then uses special ink in the printer which can act as a resist since the normal ink jet ink would just be eaten away in the etchant tank.
“Materials:
– Obviously you’ll need some form of an Epson inkjet printer probably of the C80 family as those are the ones I have seen modifications to in the past.
– A sheet of aluminum or steel or some metal sheet (about 9 inches by 14.5 inches roughly)
– Approximately 4 feet of 1/4 inch bent (90 degree corner piece) aluminum rail
– Some type of brackets and screws to secure them with (I used 3, you’ll see an image of them later on)
– Some 4 – 40 screws (I used 1/2 inch long ones)
– Nuts for said screws (I used about 16)
– A small piece of scrap plywood and some other random scraps of 2×4 or something of the sort
– Epoxy and/or hot glue
– The drivers for whichever printer and operating system you decide to use
– An ink kit from Inksupply.com (more details on this later)”
