Pad Printing Applications - Origins

The most complete range of pad printing services available. Padprinters.com has access to an enormous range of pad printing equipment and applications.

Padprinters.com offers the most complete range of pad printing services available in the country. Drawing on our TOSH distributorship we have access to an enormous range of pad printing equipment. We are capable of pad printing from 1 - 8 colors, 4 color process and functional materials such as conductive inks. Padprinters.com provides a full service artwork department, as well as color matching. We are equipped with both corona pretreatment equipment and flame treating equipment. We are happy to take on jobs from 50 to 50 million pieces and can make both types of jobs affordable without sacrificing quality. Our development laboratory is the best in the country and we currently work with a large number of design and development houses on new projects for sample parts and pilot runs. When these jobs go into full production, we can continue to provide the services economically, or give the customer a turn-key solution that they can implement on their own floor.

We are happy to stock customer's parts in bulk and print them as necessary for their end users. After printing we will repackage and drop ship them to the end customer directly.

Pad Printing Applications

The list of potential applications for pad printing is seemingly endless. The average person probably comes into contact with dozens of pad printed products on a daily basis without knowing it.

Here are just a few things that are commonly decorated with pad printing: alarm clocks, shower heads, electric razors, toothbrushes, coffee makers, coffee cups, toasters, oven knobs, radios, television housings, remote controls, telephones, watch dials, computer housings, monitors, keyboards, diskettes, pens, eyeglass frames... the list goes on.

Pad Printing Origins

Pad printing is often compared to screen printing, hot stamping, ink jet marking and ink stamping. While the final result may appear similar, pad printing is fundamentally different from any of these processes.

Through a clever use of solvent evaporation, pad printing transfers an image out of an etched plate, onto a silicone pad and then finally onto the part.