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Elephantech develops etchless inkjet printed PCB (elephantech.com)
2 points by numpad0 on Dec 24, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


It's "regular old" FR-4 PCB, so far tested for up to 8 layers. Industrially copper inkjet printed, then drilled and plated, completely forgoing wet etching processes. Only through hole vias are supported[1] at this moment(but that's good enough for a lot of use cases).

1: https://twitter.com/shinyashimizu_j/status/18688838600435673...


The printer in action: https://youtu.be/VyDdqvtr3Uw




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