Functional Printing Materials Market at a CAGR of 25% through 2020. Functional Printing Market | Page 7

1. MARKET OVERVIEW
Functional Printing is defined as deposition of a printable substance on a substrate that creates
an active or passive functionality beyond traditional graphics. The resultant product would have
unique features to sense or control conductivity, resistivity, thermo-chromic reactions, fluid
dynamics and so on. The Market report consists of detailed study on Functional Printing Market
which is forecasted between 2014 and 2020 based on several segments including type of
materials, deposition techniques, coating, applications and geography.
The Functional Printing market is based on types of materials used and they are segmented into
four divisions including substrates, conductors, inks, semiconductors and encapsulants.
Substrates are again classified into four categories including polymer films, paper, glass and
ceramics. Then the market is segmented by deposition techniques such as Inkjet printing, Screen
printing, Gravure printing, Aerosol jet printing and Offset lithography. Screen and Inkjet
printing techniques are the major ones. Functional Printing Market is further segmented by
coating techniques such as conformal coating, conductive coating, dielectric coating and UV
coating.
Subsequently, the Functional Printi