Coming to a Printer Near You: Electronics Manufacturing

It's still very early days, but researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have been taking significant strides in developing a new technology that makes it possible to print electronic components like sensors, transistors, light-emitters, smart tags, flexible batteries, memory, smart labels, and more.

Although PARC's work doesn't involve 3D printing, it does share one major trait with that very hot technology: it is additive rather than subtractive.

Though PARC is a division of Xerox, and that company's decades of printing expertise, it is not developing the new technology for its parent. Rather, it is working in conjunction with private companies