Can Printed Electronics Be the Silver Bullet for the Printing Industry?
Photo courtesy of Cal Poly Graduate Education Printed electronics is a emerging area where one can use traditional graphics printing techniques to put down conductive lines using such as screenprinting , flexography , gravure , offset lithography , and inkjet . This has been in the research phases for years and now it appears people are gearing up for the manufacturing phase. All the research has been focused is in the making the conductive inks more affordable and adapting printing machines for these inks. This area can be a prime target for the Maker Movement . You also need to train printing professionals and creative designers to use this area. We talked with Malcolm Keif , professor in Graphic Communications at Cal Poly, about their online program in Printed Electronics to train people in this field.