wileyonlinelibrary.com properties that make it diffi cult for additive, high throughput, scalable fabrication processes. For example, in the context of inkjet printing, the combination of viscosity, surface tension, and density alone suggest Ga–In alloy to be a non-printable fl uid without modifying either the material or the atmosphere (Supporting Information). Additionally, the fast-forming o...

Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D soft organs remains a big challenge. Organ printing, which we define as computer-aided, jet-based 3D tissue-engineering of living human organs, offers a possible solution. Organ printing involves three sequential steps: pre-processing or development of "blueprints" for organs; ...

Compared to the common selective laser sintering (SLS) manufacturing method, fused deposition modeling (FDM) seems to be an economical and efficient three-dimensional (3D) printing method for high temperature polymer materials in medical applications. In this work, a customized FDM system was developed for polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK) materials printing. The effects of printing speed, layer th...

Stencil printing remains the technology route of choice for flip chip bumping because of its economical advantages over traditionally costly evaporation and electroplating processes. This paper provides the first research results on stencil printing of 80 μm and 60 μm pitch peripheral array configurations with Type 7 Sn63/Pb37 solder paste. In specific, the paste particle size ranges from 2 μm ...

Although 3D objects to be printed may have “natural direction” or intended direction for printing, most 3D printing methods slice and print them horizontally. This causes staircase effect on the surface and prevents expression of the natural or intended direction; that is, the natural direction and the printing direction contradict. This paper proposes a methodology for direction-specified 3D p...

One of the challenges in the printing industry is the presence of extra lines in printing design. This problem is due to the improper surface roughness of carved cylinders. This research endeavors to specify and optimize the effective parameters on the surface roughness of chrome coated printing cylinders in the finishing process that is done using a finish star machine. Investigated parameters...

UV printing is different from conventional printing in many ways. It is still ink on paper but the ink dries through a completely different process. Instead of having solvents in the ink that evaporate into the air and absorb into the paper, UV inks dry through a photomechanical process. When the inks are exposed to ultraviolet lights they turn from a liquid, or paste, to a solid. There is sign...

3D printing is becoming increasingly popular around the world today. By utilizing 3D printing technology, customized products can be manufactured much more quickly and efficiently with much less cost. However, 3D printing still suffers from low quality surface reproduction compared with 2D printing. One effective approach to improve it is to develop an advanced halftoning algorithm for 3D print...

this article discusses the use of value stream mapping(vsm) in a make-to-order production environment. according to this tool, apractical study carried out about the way of implementation of leanmanufacturing in a commercial printing company in an action research basis. theaim of using vsm as a drawing tool of current value stream is to investigatethe ways of process improvement and reducing wa...