 So we hear the ID Tech Act show and hi, so who are you? My name is Dean Taylor and I represent the Metallograph Thermal Transfer Ribbon Technology for Printed Electronics manufactured by EMAC of Amherst, New York. We have a range of materials for this. We use thermal transfer because it's easy, it's economical, it's fast and functional. So right here on the plastic? Yes, here we have an example of a radiant heater which is manufactured in with a thermal transfer printer that's produced at 25 millimeters a second and it's rated for 200 volts. It's been tested at 400 volts so this is around 4,000 ohm resistance and it's utilized in scientific equipment. So this is a this is a typical example of our larger format materials. We also have a second family of machines and we have and this is an example of one which is out we are introducing here today. Today is the debut of this printer. It is a single pass multi-layer roll-to-roll printer. We don't have the wind-up roll on it you'll notice but it runs continuously. It can print at 25 or 50 millimeters a second and we can have it run shortly but the goal with this one is that it can we print multiple layers so we can put down a base conductive circuit follow that with a and if it has gaps and we can put an insulator down and then go over the insulator for conduct to have bridges and we have this showing on the product that's coming out now you will notice on this one it is a oh okay that's the wrong one okay this is a an NFC tag so that is an example where we have to have a loop bridge across a loop. We have other ones such as this where we have and this is the basis for a switch with LEDs it's a demonstration so where my finger is is where the where a battery is connected and and on this one then so for the three separate circuits it's necessary for conductives to cross and this machine be by doing it in single pass makes it very easy to do that opens up a whole new field so i'm going to turn it over to a representative from the printer manufacturer and move on from here. So maybe you can clip it right up there yeah so hi so hi who are you hi how are you i'm kevin bresson a product manager from quick label systems division of astro nova incorporated what what is astro nova astro nova is a specialty printing systems manufacturer we manufacture printing devices for pressure sensitive labels as well as specialty printers for the aerospace industry you print in space we actually print in the cockpit of most aircraft so commercial airplanes will have in their cockpit one of our printers to print out various types of information that a pilot might need to pilot a plane and it prints on paper yes prints on paper directly on some paper and here some what is this those quick label quick label devices right here so these printers are used for printing labels that would be applied to any type of product so we enable manufacturers to customize their products do custom branding for a variety of different industries ranging from food and beverage to the chemical industry pharmaceutical medical devices and here says metallograph printed electronics so this at the show you're doing all about talking about the printed electronic stuff yes so with our qls 4100 xc printer this is a very well-established technology that we've had since the early 1990s we have a forestation thermal transfer process and we're printing conductive materials as well as dielectric isolating material and thereby we're able to create these multi-layer circuit since the 90s so more than 20 years of this stuff yes the company has been in existence for 50 years now and what's next what's the future really going to be all about well we're hoping to enter into this circuit printing market with with this device along with the metallographic ribbons all right this can print a whole a whole lot or it's just this is a small machine or do you have bigger ones no this is the only machine for this application but it's designed for printing short runs variable you know artwork or it can be used for high-volume production as well so it covers really a wide range of applications