Tech Tip Tuesday: What is the viscospatula designed to do?

The viscospatula is designed as a simple but efficient tool to assist you in establishing a consistent and reasonably accurate viscosity when mixing inks for use in your pad printing machinery. You will notice the five smaller holes at the wider end of the spatula. The speed at which your ink runs from the top […]

Tech Tip Tuesday: Considering Our Custom “Hot Wind” Option For Your Pad Printer?

The essence of the pad printing process is ink management – achieving a complete transfer of the ink (the image) from the Printing Platesto the surface of the part. Our custom “hot wind” option is a feature that affords your operator(s) much more control over their pad printing (i.e., ink management) process.  Here’s how: As […]

Tech Tip Tuesday: When Should You Replace Your Ceramic Rings?

More often than not, the ceramic rings do not make it to expiration of the useful production life.  The more likely scenario for replacing them tend to be mishandling.  The rings will often be set down incorrectly or dropped causing a chip in the ring that renders it unusable. If the ring is to make […]

Tech Tip Tuesday: Maximize The Production Life of Print Heads

It is very important that whether it is an operator or maintenance that care is always taken when working with drop-on-demand print heads. They are generally expensive and delicate. If you want to maximize the production life of print heads only trained personal should be handling them. A filtration of some sort should be used […]

Tech Tip Tuesday: Tools Required To Operate Pad Printing Machines

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the traditional sense there are very few tools required to operate pad printing machines.  In most cases you will find that a single M4 Allen key will be all that you put to the machine in order to get it setup and functioning. However there are a few tools outside of formed metal that […]

Tech Tip Tuesday: How Do You Correct Distortion With Pad Printing?

Distortion means different things to different people.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We will first speak to pad printing. If we are to stay with a fairly standard definition of distortion … the printed image is the same size and clarity as the film from which the cliché was made were it […]

Tech Tip Tuesdays: Frequently Asked Pad Printing Pad Questions?

How long should my pad printing pad last? Depending on how “rugged” a surface you’re printing on, a pad should last between 50,000 and 100,000 impressions. Improper use, careless machine operation or stray grit however, can decrease the pad’s life. What should i watch for when I’m pad printing? Make sure your substrate is free […]

Tech Tip Tuesday: Servo-driven pad printer vs. pneumatic pad printer

There are two primary reasons why a client would opt for a servo-driven pad printer over a pneumatic one: Speed & Flexibility Speed is pretty simple to grasp – shorter strokes, faster movements – all lend themselves to higher productivity, especially when it comes to fully automated machines. Flexibility is gained when a client has many different […]