drupa 2012 to Address Printed Electronics Topic

Visitors to the OE-A booth will receive a comprehensive industry guide on printed electronics and a credit-card sized energy-sufficient flashlight. The printing machine on which these often tiny products are printed is as big as the finished product is small: microFlex by 3D-Micromac is 26 feet long and a world first in its current design. A whole range of electronic functions can be printed on it, such as batteries, RFID labels, scrollable displays and flexible solar cells. Above all, it is the microFlex's better performance (higher throughput figures at a lower price) that perfectly demonstrates the development rate of printed electronics: prototypes that were once expensive are becoming progressively cheaper, bringing commercial opportunities within reach of a growing number of providers.