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Yeah, but they aren't looking to print bulk palladium. It looks like rather than printing bulk metal as well as bulk plastic, they are printing bulk plastic and trace palladium, which serves as a catalyst for targeted chemical plating with cheaper metals.

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this is close to subtractive PCB manufacturing, the palladium is 'soaked' onto the FR4 substrate then build up with electroless copper. seems the only difference is the filament has the required trace of paladium embedded in the filament.

certainly easy way to make pcb's by direct write to substrate and then additive plating up.

I didn't say it's better, but might have quick turn use.

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