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Printer for transparency mask
2006-04-25
Rupesh Sawant
2006-04-25
sokwon Paik
2006-04-25
Isaac Chan
2006-04-25
Florian Herrault
2006-04-25
Henderson, Andrew
2006-04-25
Adamson, Steve
Printer for transparency mask
sokwon Paik
2006-04-25
Rupesh,

  Ink for inkjet printer is not opaque enough to use as a mask. If you print any
pattern with inkjet printer and then see it with microscope, you will find the
patterns of greyish. Even though available highest resolution inkjet printer
have the problem what I mentioned above.
  Also inkjet printer transparency have many intrinsic dots. So they make
whitish pattern which is need to be black.

  Actually laser printer also not perfect and actual resolution is about the
half of the resolution (e.g 1200dpi printer can make about 50um pattern).

  So, print your pattern to inkjet transparency and see it with microscope. That
will clear your question.

  Sokwon

Rupesh Sawant  wrote:
  Can i print my mask design on a transparency using Inkjet printer. I
have gone through many literature about making of transparency mask,
but all of them mention the use of Laser printer. These literatures
do not tell the correct reason for not using Inkjet printer having the
same resolution as the laser printer.
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