There are innumerable printing processes to cover the wide variety of needs, even in printed electronics. Those in this encyclopaedia include:
- Printing Processes
- Flexography
- Letterpress
- Soft Lithography
- Gravure
- Pad
- Offset Lithography
- Screen
- Ink-jet
- Electrophotography
- Thermal/Laser
- Micropen
- Transfer printing
- Dip pen nanolithography
The options break down into those where the feature that applies the ink is raised (a), depressed (B) or neither, examples being a flat surface (c), using a stencil (d) and jetting ink as in (e).
For more see Printing technology - raised, Printing technology - depressed and Printing technology - other.