that's pretty cool, but malls with uv printers..? never seen that around here in Schnitzelland

This is the good out of the box ideas that can change the way we make things. This can save so much time if your current method is down, and if you didn't have any means to do it, all of a sudden you have

I actually like your video, idea and narrative style very much.

Hold on dude. not only is my nearest mall over an hour away but chances of them having this kiosk is questionable.

Thanks for posting this! I just bought a used flatbed inkjet printer for making PCB's. I'm really excited to try this out!

Very informative video and a great idea.

This is brilliant.

Very cool, never saw this process being suggested before. I'm definitely going to give it a try. Multumesc mult!

Really like the style of your video...it could probably keep a copyright lawyer in work for a year.... but it flows really well.

Have you tried this method for component layout (white) on top side of the PCB? If component and soldier mask layers are scratch resistance and of high quality, I may consider buying a UV printer for my DIY projects.

Great video....it's help me a lot

How accurate would the printer be if you flipped the board over? Do you think double sided is possible?

Great video, make sure more videos!

this is cool, thanks for sharing.

I'm definitely going to try this out for our mini project this semester

4 years and this is still not a common knowledge. World is a bad place. Thanks for working towards making it better

thanks for the upload

great video thank you, useful and entertaining

This is.... GENIUS!!!

Good idea, I like the creativity. What do you think, making silver ink with some UV compounds would work? As printing on some other materials instead of PC would be so much better.

What software do you use to design the circuit path for PCP board?

i just started doing my own pcbs, and toner transfer worked fine from the first try for me.

Nice idea to be onest , thank you

how does this compare to the laser engraver method?

Good tip! Thanks!

Thanks for the video, i have an issue, the etching removes the uv before properly etching the board . I am using hcl and hydrogen peroxide

Hi. Your video is very informative and seems very useful. I have been on the search for such solution . Many people have failed because inks must be suitable for etch resist. I hear that lithojet inks are suitable for this job but uv print shops are not willing to try inks on their machines. Another question is resolution of the printer .What resolution are you printing?.So can you share with us printer type (head type if possible) and inks used. I got some tests with a local shop here but the dot dispersion won't justify at all the 1mil line you are showing . Great video though .Thanks.

Thank you for this

Interesting. I recently aquired a laser engraver for the same purpose, except it's burning a pattern in the etch resist (black spray paint) that I previously applied, effectively making it a negative of your process, which is really cool. If I knew about that, I may have considered it instead.

I made a PCB for my college project, 1. Put your design onto an acetate sheet ( Printers can print on acetate). 2. Lay acetate design over a photo-etch pcb, & expose to UV light. 3. etch your board in the normal way. We did it in 1980's.

You almost had me, you cheeky cheeky man

I have a CNC Router driller Jot / ozo automation with automatic tool change (it had a photoplotter but cannot find one). Can you use a laser engraver ? like 10 or 40W? Or where do you find a uv head?. The advantage of my cnc is I have pins to revert the Double face and the drill can be aligned . I have also a pen holder. Do you think pen paint will work? (this crazy machine works under dos with a PC386DX but I still do the maintenance and programming on it)

Nice video, like it, thanks for sharing :)

Nice! I've been using photosensitive boards and find them convenient, but don't always have blanks. I'm thinking I may have to try using UV curable ink on a board, then print to a transparency, and then expose via a UV lamp. Then I can prep blanks easily.

how do we solder electronic components on this PCBs, is it done by normal soldering process ??

I live in Brazil bro. I buy a 10w laser to make PCB and some fine cuttings because we don't have that technology around.

wouldnt they all be connected together?

I used to make homemade boards back in the 1970's - 1980's and it was always the same.. buy a pre-photosensitized PCB in a black wrapper, layout my pattern on mylar film with thin layout tape and an exacto blade, expose it to sunlight in a glass holder, strip the unexposed copper, etch the board and DRILL BABY DRILL. It would be easier today with everything being SMD, but the density of traces on my boards is also much higher now. Man! If I had a way to make good test prototypes now instead of going straight to production runs!

Brilliant 👏

I give you one thumbs-up for the helpful video, and a dozen virtual thumbs-up for the accent. Your real name is Boris, right? Don't disappoint me.

Your results look great, but I have a question or two about the mall kiosks. What has UV got to do with it? Do they have various colors of ink that they then cure under UV? If so, I guess that's because it's better than just having various colors of permanent ink (without UV curing)? Or do they just use say they use UV because they haven't thought of saying "blockchain" yet? :-) BTW, the hard part of home PCB making for me was always drilling the million little holes for through-hole components. The etching part was always lousy-but-good-enough.

Are you from Bulgaria?? The mall?

All the malls have closed...where can I get a uv printer?

Same problem with most pcb making videos. how do you register front to back for double sided printing? how do you plate through the holes? Nice try, interesting, but no cigar.

We got a fancy pants commercial uv printer at work. Except keks won't let me use it.

i think ive seen methods like this where some sort of printer protects the copper while you etch it and then just remove the ink. maybe it was this method.. probably not that dot matrix printer though.. dang that thing was loud, and the paper had holes in it to ride the lightning

Nice test pattern. Would you mind sharing it?

good idea. what if I want to do a 2 layer pcb with this method?

Hahah, nice picture - mall from Bulgaria :)😃

Hi I hope all is well with you and the family Its been a while since this video I need your assistance regarding uv printer I would like to purchase one however cannot afford the thousands for now Maybe in the future if I should ever make a sale I don't know if you have ab idea we're to purchase them even if refurbished once I have also seen 3d resin printers with UV curling lights I thought I ask you if that is ok Finally the etching chemicals required Sincerely ejike

Great!

Do you try lazer pcb

if you're going to use a UV printer, may as well get a mini-vinyl cutter and use it. You'll get the same result.

what is the radio rat fg" you show the board at the beginning

How much do you generally pay per board (in RON).

Malls with UV printers ? None here in Christchurch New Zealand yet.

I was use polise remover and iron both i found good result

Sadly I don't have one available anywhere near me

Доста интересно, не бях чувал за тези принтери.... в TheMall наистина ли имат такова и къде?

Yikes! That's sick! Too easy to be true, must try

One major problem with this approach is, double sides pcb's are impossible to do this way. otherwize it seems lke a good way to make pcb's.

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1:31 Mall of Burgas?

Next video, how to modified epson printer to using uv ink

Game changer I’d say.

Never seen one of these in Australia.

Although I could be surprised, but I would see a kiosk charging no less than $10 to print...Good in a pinch, but doesn't seem cost effective for mass production.

Ohh Thanks

Home PCBs are very easy, but you need to do it right: 1) The magazine thing is not ideal. Get real transfer paper 2) While every video I see shows someone cleaning the board, you also need to etch the full copper in your FeCl BEFORE transferring, You only need to throw it in the bath for 30 seconds or so. Then rinse it off. It will come out dull copper. The toner will stick MUCH better to it than a shiny board, even if you try to rough it up with steel wool or scotchbrite. 3) a regular clothes iron is lousy. I use a hobby iron used for covering RC airplanes. Set it and CHECK the temp. It needs to be 300 deg F. Also the iron itself needs to be flat, and then, very importantly, you need to FLATTEN it again on sandpaper! 320 grit works well. This thing needs to be dead flat. I regularly transfer very delicate lines very successfully. With the transfer paper (it's actually clear plastic), you can SEE when the toner has transferred, and you can lay it back down in case something didn't transfer over.

so then an modified inkjet printer should work aswell.

My problem is with the aciiid ;( also I’ve never seen the uv printing things

Merci!

Laser printer works fine too. Just do a search on google

1 mil is equal to .0254mm. Your 1mil and 5 mil is breaking up. You need to use 8 mil...because that line shows good all the way thru. That means you can't go below .1mm.

it is impossible to perform on both sides, so is the problem of drilling.

oh cool

The vast majority of people in the world do not live near a business that has a UV printer nor have they ever heard of such thing at all . So you're simply stuck !?!?! No, that would NOT help a lot of people surely not. In my opinion, If one is skillful enough to be able to modify a normal laminator to heat up 195 - 205 degrees "C" and perhaps slow down the speed of the laminator by using a simple 555 IC timer circuit + a relay to drive/switch the motor say for instance : 4 seconds Forward and 2 seconds Reverse (and so on) the Toner Transfer Method is still one of the Best and the Most Effective/Affordable/Accessible Method with NOT too many chemicals and steps involved.

HP LaserJet P1102w + laminator = same results without any problem. With a modified cartridge (with a white toner powder ordered on aliexpress) I can make also the pcb silkscreen ;-)

Probably the only downside to this method is owning/finding a place with UV printers. Where I live (latin America), no kiosc or mall has these at all. Neither can I find them being sold anywhere.

Looks very interesting thanks. But you obviously went through a solder or similar plating step after etching as your test board does not show bare copper traces.

Very Nice.......Would you make some for me and how much thanks again

It is really Utopia

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Uv printer at least 5 times more expensive than cnc. What are you talking about?

sandwich foil Do you mean cling film?

Yes but since you do not know the quality of that printer : you can expect anything and most bad thing most of the time. The simplest solution is to project an uv image on the board after having sprading it with sensitive resine..

Be careful to not use any photo you found on the internet in you videos, some owners of these photos maybe don't agree with that without their permission.

1:00 Romania lol

Itsnot very practical to searvh for a uv printer , i never seen that thing Where i lived, and i duibr they ate gone use it with a pc bord , not practical

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Yeah cool, or... 3D print one matrix and paint as many boards by yourself as you want

still way too many steps, with too many chemicals

1:55 "go down to the ????? with a UV printer..." what ??? other parts of video are useless.

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