Speaking of silicon for AE2, I've tried un-disabling the quartz smelting to silicon in recipes.cfg, and it doesn't seem to have an effect - either way, the inscriber (or the forming press with GT 5.08 ) requires the GT silicon plate to make printed silicon, and the AE2 silicon item doesn't even show up in NEI. Is there something done on the AE2 side to prevent that from working? If so, is there any point in still having that option in recipes.cfg?
Yes, that is AE2 doing it. When it detects another mod adding a oredict "itemSilicon" it disables it's own and uses that other.