PRINTING SERVICES
TMB Pad Printing offers high quality product imprinting, branding and labelling solutions to a wide range of industries and products, including plastic injection moulding, plastic fabrication and forming, metalworks, including chrome and powder-coated surfaces, glassworks, ceramics, rubber and others.
Pad Printing is more cost effective and durable than traditional printing processes, such as screen printing, labelling and hot stamping, and allows for high definition graphics and images.
Advantages of Pad printing:
- High resistance and durability of inks.
- Printing with almost no dependency on shape or size, on a wide variety of substrates, flat or curved, smooth or textured surfaces.
- Produces high quality graphics and resolution, with fine edge definition.
- Able to match Pantone or Process colours.
- Metallic inks like Gold and Silver for stunning results.
- More durable and cost effective than labels.
- Printing of very fine detail far exceeding screen printing.
- Cost effective for large and small runs.
- 1 to 4 Colours
Custom Small & High Volume Jobs
Pad printing is a unique printing process, using flexible silicone rubber pads to transfer an inked image from an etched plate, onto the surface of a product.
Pad printing opens up new possibilities which were not available with traditional printing processes. We have the capability of offering exceptional high quality prints with colour matching and 100% registration. The main advantage of this method of printing is that it has the ability to print on virtually any kind of irregular surface or substrate.
TMB Pad Printing is known for excellent service and attention to detail with an emphasis on quality, lead-time reductions and customer service.
With an emphasis on quality, lead time reductions, and customer service we’ve changed what you can expect from the label industry.
PAD PRINTING
What Is Pad Printing?
Pad printing (also called tampography) is a printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object. This is accomplished using an indirect offset (gravure) printing process that involves an image being transferred from the cliché via a silicone pad onto a substrate. Pad printing is used for printing on otherwise difficult to print on products in many industries including medical, automotive, promotional, apparel, and electronic objects, as well as appliances, sports equipment and toys. It can also be used to deposit functional materials such as conductive inks, adhesives, dyes and lubricants.
Physical changes within the ink film both on the cliché and on the pad allow it to leave the etched image area in favor of adhering to the pad, and to subsequently release from the pad in favor of adhering to the substrate.
The unique properties of the silicone pad enable it to pick the image up from a flat plane and transfer it to a variety of surfaces, such as flat, cylindrical, spherical, compound angles, textures, concave, or convex surfaces.
