At the moment, the inks are made of suspended ceramics, including silica and also hydroxyapatite the primary constituent of bone.
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Once approved, they could be embedded both in the inks used on prescription bottles, and the pills inside, to confirm they are genuine.
Any dilution of the inks should be done with sterile liquids.
Blue Ramsey, a design professor at England's Brunel University, cautions that the inks will remain a plaything until engineers figure out how to print batteries and speakers, too.
Instead of separating the wheat from the chaff according to what layer it is found in, this relies on the different optical properties of the various inks, the mould and the parchment itself.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company's focus is on organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and organic solar technology, specifically the conductive inks and process technologies that enable those and other similar applications.
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Precisia's president, James Rohrkemper, believes that the use of conductive inks and high-speed printing processes could cut antenna costs by 50%.
What's less certain is the famous Vinland map, supposedly from the 15th century, that is claimed to document their notion of its coast: studies of the map's inks and stains suggest it may well be a fake.
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Since the robocasting machine allows the researchers to manipulate several inks at once, they are able to make new kinds of composite materials this way interlacing the filigrees, and even leaving holes in the material if that helps to arrive at the desired properties.
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We offer both aqueous and non-aqueous inks so that customers can select the exact material that they need.
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The Photosmart 8450 Photo Printer uses no fewer than eight different inks for making prints of digital photos and has an Ethernet port for hooking it up to a home network.
The company also expects to introduce ink-jet (printable) inks for limited sampling early in 2011.
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Plextronics is the only company that is currently offering a full line of OLED HIL inks for a variety of solution emitters.
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Note that the company supplies several key components for the Microsoft Xbox Kinect device, for instance, while also selling specialty inks for currency printers.
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As Xerox fiddled with financial engineering, Canon continued to invest in new technologies to gain ground in the copier market, with new methods for printing multiple colours and finer, more efficient inks.
Conductive inks, which typically contain silver flake, carbon and other resins, have been around since the 1970s, when they were introduced in keyboards and windshield defrosters.
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