Print and cure viscous materials, on rigid, flexible and stretchable substrates.
A Multi-Functional Platform
The V-One is material and substrate agnostic. Have your own material you want to dispense? Have a specific substrate in mind? Contact us for tips on how to get started with non-standard printing on the V-One.
Develop resistive & capacitive sensors, biological sensors, RFID and NFC antennae or heating elements right at your desk.
Affordable and Flexible
The V-One is priced to help researchers in any institution to start experimenting without extensive grant applications and budget requests.
The V-One is flexible enough to support many applications. Join hundreds of researchers around the world in designing new, state-of-the-art technologies.
Support for Innovation
With the Voltera V-One, you get more than a PCB printer. You get an entire organization supporting your product development lifecycle and a store stocked with the accessories you need to innovate.
We strive to go above and beyond to help solve tricky use cases. Nothing gets us more excited than seeing our users create things we would never have imagined.
Materials
Compatible with almost any screen-printable, functional material.
Substrates
Use any non-porous, non-compressible substrates.
Heating
An integrated 550W heater allows for custom heating/reflow profiles.
Ink and Printing FAQ
The bulk resistivity of our ink is 9.5E-7 Ohms.m and the sheet resistance under typical conditions is 12 mOhms/sq. It is among the best conductive inks on the market. While it is not as conductive as copper, it is capable of handling almost all digital and analog applications.
A single ink cartridge will allow you to print up to 85 Hello World boards. This also equates to 100 m of conductive trace at 8 mil width, or 200 cm2 of solid pour. The number of boards you are able to print will depend on size and complexity of the circuits you are building.
The ink cartridge has an official shelf life of 6 months and should be stored in the refrigerator when not used.
An 8 month research partnership with the University of Alberta demonstrated the ink will perform on par with standard copper up to 5 GHz!
To learn about conductivity considerations, visit this article in our support docs.
We've tested our printed PCBs under 100mA load for 4 months in ambient, high-temperature (60°C) and low-temperature (5°C) environments, with no detectable change in performance.
We recommend you stick with through-hole for large components like connectors, but use surface mount components for resistors and capacitors.
For passive components, we can dispense ink down to 0402 pads. For IC's, although we officially support 0.8 mm pin to pin pitch, 0.65mm has been shown to work reliably.
Your mileage may vary, and you're definitely in adventure mode. Much of custom ink printing is trial and error, and dependent on the material properties of your custom formulation, so accuracy and reliability are impossible to promise. In very general terms, materials that you can screen print are the best place to start, but we can't guarantee that something will or won't work. Many of our power users do dispense custom inks, so if you have questions about specific materials reach out to Voltera using the in-app support chat and we'll help you through it.
We use copper rivets for a couple of reasons. First: structural stability. Having a solid copper sleeve through your board is going to be much sturdier than cured ink. Second: hand soldering. Working with copper rivets allows for a nice solid metal surface to solder to, making hand soldering much easier.
