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Is ink a conductor? For instance, could you use a standard printer to
create parts of a circuit?

Thanks.

 

[Chris]

Is ink a conductor? For instance, could you use a standard printer to
create parts of a circuit?

Thanks.

Hi, Mike. Yes, there are conductive inks. Google "thick film
resistors" to find out how it's done. Also, there are silver-based
inks which can be used as conductors, They're also used in thick film
resistors and hybrids to make interconnection between resistors and to
the pins.

If you're doing high frequency work, you can play with the conductors
to make very small capacitances, too.

You generally use a silkscreening process to deposit the inks on a
ceramic substrate, and then roll them through a belt furnace to cure
them. You can then use lasers to trim up the resistance values.

If you've got a SIP resistor network in your junkbox, it's almost
certainly made from this process. Try using some acetone or other
solvent to dissolve the painted cover off the network, and you can see
the resistors and conductors.

Good luck
Chris

 

[Jamie]

Is ink a conductor? For instance, could you use a standard printer to
create parts of a circuit?

Thanks.

no, how ever, you could use a laser printer
and iron a design on it, then etch it.

 

[JeffM]

Is ink a conductor?
http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?q=conductive-inks

For instance, could you use a standard printer to create parts of a circuit?

How would you connect the parts?
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....secured-with-Epoxy+gradual-increase+oxidation

 

[James Thompson]

Is ink a conductor? For instance, could you use a standard printer to
create parts of a circuit?

Thanks.

I bet your thinking to print on plastic film with conductive ink.
Well regular ink is not gonna do it, and you can fill an ink cartridge with
the circuit works conductive ink. Good luck.

 

[Kurt Krueger]

Hi, Mike. Yes, there are conductive inks. Google "thick film
resistors" to find out how it's done. Also, there are silver-based
inks which can be used as conductors, They're also used in thick film
resistors and hybrids to make interconnection between resistors and to
the pins.

Back in the days of pen plotters folks would replace the pens with
thick film resistor paste dispensors and draw on ceramic. As far
as I know, it never caught on.

 

[James Thompson]

I bet your thinking to print on plastic film with conductive ink.

Well regular ink is not gonna do it, and you can fill an ink cartridge
with the circuit works conductive ink. Good luck.

Should be Can't fill an ink cartridge. Nimble fingers NOT.