[sudo-discuss] wax printer

[Adam]

Actually it just occurred to me...

If you wrote an app that calculates the screen size and displays Gerber
images, then with a blue filter and fresnel lens you could easily expose
photosensitive PCBs (and even align two side ones).

On Nov 30, 2017 9:41 AM, "Jake" <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> you can also do the thing Morgan was doing, where you spray paint the
> copper
> and then use the laser cutter to remove paint wherever you want, and then
> etch.
>
> and there's always the toner-transfer method if you can get a laser
> printer to
> work.
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Cere Davis wrote:
>
> Might work.  Congrats on getting on of those!  Ya, like you said, or didn’t
>> exactly say, I would need a mask that has an adhesive or have to use a
>> vapor, which I’m really not set up to do.  As a plan B.  Does anyone know
>> where I can use a high quality vinyl cutter?  AMT has a cutter, but I
>> can’t
>> get much resolution out of it before something ultimately goes to shit.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Adam <me at adammunich.com> wrote:
>>
>> i bought a form labs printer, might be good for making masks?
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>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Cere Davis <ceremona at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I gave up after a thousand paper jams etc. Sucked.
>>>>
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>>>> On Nov 29, 2017 5:55 PM, "Cere Davis" <ceremona at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ya, it keeps wanting a cleaing sheet and then jamming when I try to feed
>>>>> it in via the tray or manual.  Gah!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Cere Davis <ceremona at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Just tried the other printer after I sent that message.  I think I’m on
>>>>>> the right track now.  It was the printer with an asset label but
>>>>>> without a
>>>>>> paper tray, initially.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> did you try both?  did either one of them print a test page?
>>>>>>> (assuming there
>>>>>>> was paper in the tray or in the manual-feed loader)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> note that the printer will throw an error if the paper tray is not
>>>>>>> present.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Cere Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ya, no, this printer is just not going to print.  If you’re coming
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> over to
>>>>>>>> sudo tonight, I would love to know what the magic is to making this
>>>>>>>> thing
>>>>>>>> work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> one of them works, the other has mechanical problems i think (and
>>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>>>> paper
>>>>>>>>> tray?)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> please put paper notes on the printers with whatever you discover,
>>>>>>>>> for the
>>>>>>>>> next
>>>>>>>>> person...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> here's my imgur instructable about how to use these printers to
>>>>>>>>> etch
>>>>>>>>> pyralux
>>>>>>>>> circuits (don't forget to bake the ink on before trying to etch!):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://imgur.com/a/TbzsP
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -jake
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Cere Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hey is the wax primer working at Sudo or what needs to be done to
>>>>>>>>> get it
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> functional?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Cere
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> *Cere Davis*
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Science-Art | Kinetic Sculpture
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>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> *Cere Davis*
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> @ceremona <http://Twitter.com/Ceremona>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Cere Davis*
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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