Automated Pad Printing Applications

Automated pad printing machines can save your company time and money if you print items on a regular basis. The additional up-front cost of an automated pad printer vs. a manual pad printer can be quickly offset in labor cost savings.

1. View examples of Printek’s automated pad printing solutions like the high-speed Sealcup 90 pad printer: all-mechanical cam-operated bench model with hermetically sealed ink cup, interfaced to fully automated pad printing system.
2. Medical Device – Automated Pad Printing System for pad printing two-color images on front and back of a medical device.
3. In designing pad printing systems “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” This applies to any task that requires solving a problem that may have already been solved.
4. Because various medical devices like catheters that require graduations, numbers and logos must often be viewed from both sides; two sets of images must be applied with a pad printing solution.
5. In the concept stage, a potential pad printing application will be tagged by our engineers with the “perfect for modular” label. The term refers to our modular pad printing systems which we have used over the years for simpler, semi-automatic machines comprised of standard components configured within limited parameters.
6. The sealed ink cup pad printing method allowed our clients to decorate medical tubes at a rate of 1500 parts per hour and to be able to do so with minimal operator involvement.
7. In the rotary pad printing process, ink is first picked up by a cliché drum, which is analogous to the plate in the standard process.