Industrial Printing covers printing applications in the fields of packaging, textiles, décors, ceramics, printed electronics and functional printing. The largest industrial printing markets are packaging and textiles. Many innovative applications can be found in the broad field of printed electronics and the increasingly important area of bioprinting. This course comprises lectures on industrial and functional printing. The industrial printing lecture focuses on the digital printing applications in the industrial markets. It discusses the specific requirements which determine the design of digital presses for these markets. Pretreatments play a key role because the substrates are not primarily designed for printing, as they usually are in commercial printing.

Functional printing combines materials science, electrical engineering and printing technologies to enable printed electronics, sensors, energy devices and smart surfaces. The lecture on functional printing introduces to the physical, chemical, and process-related foundations of functional printing, and demonstrates how these principles translate into real industrial applications such as printed batteries, solar cells, and micro-optics.

Upon completion of the course, students will have a solid understanding of the products, requirements, printing technologies and processes in the industrial printing markets. This includes the physical principles behind processes as adhesion forces and surface tension, the alignment of reflective pigments and pretreatment methods. Students will be able to approach new subjects within these fields, demonstrating their ability to understand scientific information.