Brad:
There are only a few inks that can be used on very flexible TPE's (same inks
used on silicones for keypads via pad printing). Painting is possible but
the paint must be as flexible as the base material. I'm not sure but I
would imagine that painting would not be the best choice. Overmolding and
co-molding is all the rage now with TPE's to get colors and textures.
Mark Bannister
Brad W. Wright, Ph.D., P.E. wrote:
> Fellow RP-ers:
>
> This is barely on-topic, but I was wondering if any of you had any
> experience or knew any leads
> on injection-molded TPEs. Specifically, I was wondering what paint or
> ink systems could be
> used on TPE's that were reasonably durable and flexible. Any help would
> be appreciated.
> Thanks!
>
> Brad Wright
> Wright Engineering and Applied Technologies
> WrightEngr@gomontana.com
>
> For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jun 05 2001 - 22:46:33 EEST