Printing (non-paper applications)
Enabling novel applications using low-cost, high-throughput printing techniques

Printing systems originally developed for conventional document printing now offer an inexpensive method to deposit and pattern unconventional materials – such as semiconductors, nanoparticles, and biological materials.

• Printing systems — PARC researchers have developed custom jet-printing systems, ranging from small single ejector systems to large multi-ejector, multi-head systems for application prototyping.
   
• Printed electronics — PARC researchers developed two low-cost, high-yield printing techniques for electronic devices including:
  • digital lithography (where a wax etch mask is printed); and
  • all-additive printing (where all the active materials are printed).