What is pad printing machine and pad printing technology?

From Jenny

What's pad printing machine and pad printing technology?

Pad printing is one of special printing method. 

It can printing any words, diagrams and images on irregular surface items. It is becoming an important special printing method. For example:

Mobile phone surface’s words and image is adopts pad printing method. And computer keyboard, instrument, meter…..etc both can be printed by pad printing machines.

Pad printer machine’s technology is very simple, adopts steel (or copper, plastomer) gravure, make use of silicon rubber material made up cylinder silicon pad, be going to gravure surface’s ink move to silicon pad’s surface, and then, forward the ink to products surface printed out image and words.

Pad printing machines type:

Pad printing technology is a special printing technique spread to China at the80’s, because of it with obvious advantages of small area and concave-convex surface products doing printing, make up silk screen printing technical’s deficiency, so it developed very fast.

At The90’s initial, With China market more dispark, Bulk electronic, plastic, present and toy traditional industries as subjectival’s foreign-funded enterprise in succession entrance China’s Market, pad printing technique and silk screen printing technical as the main decorate method get more supernormal developing.

According incomplete statistics, Pad printing technology and silk screen printing technical’s application reach:

Electronic field: 27%

Plastic field:    64%

Present field:   51%

Toy field:       66%