In traditional carbro printing, a silver bromide printer is rolled into contact with a sensitized sheet of carbon tissue. The exposure occurs via a chemical process. Is it possible to replace the silver bromide printer step with an inkjet printer? An inkjet tank filled with bromide solution could print the image directly onto the carbon tissue. It’d be sort of like a digital negative, but the ink is the bromide used for exposure. After laying down the bromide image, the carbon tissue would continue to be developed as is traditionally done.

For that matter, another inkjet tank could contain the sensitizer and both could be applied at the same time on a dry carbon tissue, perhaps on a plastic base so as not to crinkle in the inkjet roller advance mechanism. Could a CIS inkjet with firmware and print head modifications mechanize manufacturing of carbon tissue, or is the pigment-gelatin solution too viscous and wet for inkjet printers?