Industrial & Specialty Printing - November/December 2012 - 2

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26 COLUMNS 10 Business Management 32 Printed Electronics
Joseph Fjelstad, Verdant Electronics Keep up with technological change in the printed-electronics ﬁeld. Julia Goldstein, Ph.D. e author looks into what makes smart-card technology work and where the U.S. stands in adopting it. Wim Zoomer, Technical Language Roll-to-roll printing plays an important part in graphics and industrial printing. Richard Kirk, Polyphotonix It takes both sides of the brain to lead in functional printing. Take an inside look at what Onalaska, WI-based Empire Screen Printing, Inc. produces.

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12 Printing Automotive Instrumentation

Mike McDaniel, GM Nameplate e author gives a step-by-step look at making automotive panels. Randall Sherman, New Venture Research is article is the ﬁrst of a three-part series that addresses the evolution of PE print technology, starting with printing equipment.

16 Manufacturing Equipment for Printed Electronics 22 Lasers Make Light Work of Label Printing 26 Conductive Inks

Noel Ward, Brimstone Hill Associates Learn how lasers can be adjusted to ﬁt many substrates and programmed for a variety of ﬁnishing operations. Dan Banﬁeld, Conductive Compounds See how conductive inks work in functional printing.

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November/December 2012 • Volume 03/Issue 06

34 Printing Methods

38 Industry Insider 40 Shop Tour

DEPARTMENTS 4 Editorial Response 8 Product Focus 39 Ad Index
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e RFID inlay, as shown on the cover, is part of a contactless smart card. It includes an antenna and circuitry to make electrical contact to the card’s chip, which is attached to the inlay foil and embedded into the card before lamination. Cover design by Keri Harper.

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