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Old 11-28-2005, 12:08 PM
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Looking for sharpie ink or plotter ink

I'm looking to buy some small amounts of sharpie-ink, or plotter ink to test in my epson inkjet printer. I've hacked it apart to accept a flat-sheet of material for direct printing (instead of paper); and the water-soluable ink does not adhere to my metal surface I am trying to print to.

Does anyknow know a supplier that sells the ink in bottles; to refill pens? Because I called SHARPIE corporate office, and tried about 3 different departments and nobody at the company will sell me the fluid itself, without being in a marker (unless I agreed to buy 100 of the 55-gallon drums).
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Old 11-28-2005, 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DrStein99
I'm looking to buy some small amounts of sharpie-ink, or plotter ink to test in my epson inkjet printer. I've hacked it apart to accept a flat-sheet of material for direct printing (instead of paper); and the water-soluable ink does not adhere to my metal surface I am trying to print to.

Does anyknow know a supplier that sells the ink in bottles; to refill pens? Because I called SHARPIE corporate office, and tried about 3 different departments and nobody at the company will sell me the fluid itself, without being in a marker (unless I agreed to buy 100 of the 55-gallon drums).

Good luck with it. Someone else tried to buy some ink to do the same or similar thing (printing on PCB for etch resist mask) but were told they needed to order a tanker full! A train car tanker that is!

I don't know of any other alternative sources for that sort of ink. The only option I can think of is to buy some big markers, pull them apart, and squeeze the ink out of the felt cores. Home depot has some really big Sharpie markers that I saw yesterday - sorry, don't recall the price. But they were the biggest darn sharpies I ever saw.

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Old 11-28-2005, 12:37 PM
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According to my research; plotter inks use the same fluid as sharpie markers; wether it's sharpie ink or not - it does the same job.

I looked for refillable plotter ink pens using google, then called a few companies to buy the fluid - and got a run-around phone conversation.

Before I waste more phone time, I figured I would post on here if anyone knew a place they bought their plotter supplies, and just bought the ink in small test amounts to refill their own pens.
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I have and used to heavily use two large plotters, Hp and a Mutoh 920. Both use the same pens/pencil carosels and you could not buy the ink seperately. Only option was to buy the pen, either fiber tip or the ceramic tip disposable plotter pens. Fibre tip work like mini sharpies, Ceramic tip have an ink reservoir. Neither smell like a sharpie marker. You could buy some cpv ceramic tip pens but they're ~$25 for four and probably have an oz of ink together..

Couple of points.. IF this is to print on, say, pcb with an inkjet or a metal as a permanent marking you'll have problems with most of the plotter inks' and especially the CPV type as those inks are visibly thicker than inkjet refill inks and may be too thick for the cartridge nozzles. Of the fibre tip plotter pen types only the original HP black works as an etch resist or an indelible marker on metals. Many other brands, colours don't and wipe off metal easily. They're made for film or paper after all....
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I'm gonna ask a stupid question...but that's not new for me! Could you use blue Dycem (sp) and thin it enough to use in the printer?

Can you share what you intend to do with the metal after using the dye? that might help with options or at least suggestions.

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I'm etching copper printed circuit boards. Whats blue dyecem and where do I buy that?
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You don't want to use dyecem....you really need something that is going to stop the transmission of light.....have you done a search on indelible ink....india ink comes to mind....but I don't believe it's indelible...
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I dont believe light has any effect on my procedures.

I simply draw a pattern using a sharpie marker on a copper pcb, and then bathe it in etch soluition. After about 30-45 minutes, I remove the board from the bath - and wherever the sharpie didnt touch; is bare silicone board and the rest of it are copper traces (under the sharpie lines).

There are other procedures to develop a pcb using photo-sensitive materials, but the procedure I am pursueing doesnt use any of that.

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I have never heard of indelible ink, or know what it does but I will check it out - and india ink too. I'll test ANYTHING!
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Back in the day I used to refill my "disposable" HP plotter pens.
Search for Rapidoplot, Koh-i-noor, Staedtler-Mars.
Small bottles are readily available.
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Thats the info I was looking for. I found some ink by koh-i-noor w/ ease, and found alot of PENS by the other two. It says "waterproof, to metal, perminant" so those are the three elements I definately need!
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OK, now you owe us a photo of that hacked-apart printer
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You may try a local art supply/ graphics supply type place.
Staedtler-Mars makes some very nice re-fillable technical pens used for old-school drafting and technical illustration. The ink is pretty robust.
Perhaps something like this?
http://www.utrechtart.com/dsp_view_p...ing&Item=38374
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