> The other thing that I worry about is that the non-water-soluble inks
> used industrially (ID card printers and PCB silkscreen printers have
> been alluded to) may not be suitable in an amateur environment.  The
problem
> with solvents is that they evaporate, probably clogging everything up in
> the process.  Industrial equipment may assume near-continuous operation
with
> a cleaning cycle at the end of each day, but when you start talking about
> producing a couple boards a week, you may end up spending all your time
> cleaning your printheads and trying to keep your (probably expensive) ink
> from drying out.

Hmm.  I see your point.

> I have this problem with ordinary inkjets; I've "always" had a B&W printer
> (currently a laser) as well as the color inkjet.  The B&W printer gets
used
> for everything that doesn't NEED color (faster and cheaper), and the color
> inkjet sits there with it's ink drying up and its printheads getting
clogged.
> (and the money I'm nominally trying to save by not printing color gets
used
> up on head cleaner...  Sigh.)

Lol!  I know...  I had the same problem with my previous LexMark printer.
Now I use a Canon 6200 and it doesn't have this problem.

    Kyrre

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