A thought to stir some more thoughts ...

The Canon i865/i965 and the new lower cost PIXMA i3000 and i4000 all have
direct to CD (no label) printing adaptors. These also allow printing to 8 cm
(sorry, 80 mm :-) ) and business card size CDRs.

This facility should allow direct printing to PCBs with a suitable adaptor,
and it seems probable that a larger board size should be able to be
accomodated. Also phone cards and similar fwiw. if the ink is suitable as a
n etch resist (as it should be) it may usher in a new era. Also, component
references and (just possibly) solder masks should be possible.

The i4000 is not yet available in NZ but I will probably wait for them to
appear as they seem to offer good performance for the money. As well as the
CD printing facility they have duplexing (a must-have for me) as standard .



        RM



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