Breakthrough In Printed Electronics

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Breakthrough In Printed Electronics (10/17/2005)>excerpt from GAMMAG.

The Institute for Print and Media Technology at Chemnitz University in Germany developed a new process that enables electronic circuitry to be produced with mass printing technology. The process will enable the low-cost, mass production of integrated circuitry in paper and cardboard. The first practical applications are expected to be electronic printed maps, paper keyboards, clothing labels, luggage tags, packaging, tickets and more.

The institute's researchers tested all mass printing technologies such as offset, gravure and flexographic printing.

The process prints with polymers that can be processed similar to ink. Compared to traditional printing, say project researchers, the demands on precision as well as on the chemical characteristics of the printing inks are considerably higher. A single mistake in printing will immediately lead to malfunctions of the printed circuit.


How innovative!! just think of all the possibilities with this.

I have a friend who is a designer, he was telling me about this a little-while back. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but that's very interesting.
Vee

[tbJAMMIN]

A single mistake in printing will immediately lead to malfunctions of the printed circuit.

Luckily, there are no mistakes inherent to these methods of printing......

[David]

A single mistake in printing....

I'm sure they meant to say "prepress"




cause you know it's always our fault, we should have known better, I thought I taught you to check all the specs, I think we'll need to bring this up at our next spoilage meeting....


8O

[T]

Some further links...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6618
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3292
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3238

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interesting links... thanks fer adding to the topic 'T'....

[KeriVit]

We did some test printing for quite a while with one of the companies trying to develop this. It was very interesting. They brought their own ink and materials. Sometimes we used our plates, other times they made their own somehow. But, everything had to be perfect, it was scary. As for the files, they usually just gave us an Illustrator file. So the margin of error was really just "on press"