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Pad Printing - Product Decoration Guide

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Product Decoration Guide: Pad Printing

- Pad printing is for almost all types of non-porous surfaces including plastic, metal, wood, glass, stress toys and ceramics.
- Suitable
for spot colour; commonly machines are capable or up to 4 colours but 5
and 6 colour machines are available. Process colour is possible with a
4 colour machine (CMYK) if the product is white and 5 colours (CMYK +
white underlay) on a coloured product.
- Pad Printing can reproduce all tones, or more correctly, screens at extremely fine resolution.
- The
biggest concern that faces the pad printer is the selection of the
correct ink for the material the item is made of.
- Repeat
set ups require similar labour and materials as initial set ups, but
without film and plate production, and are charged accordingly.
- Virtually any surface can be pad printed,
in spot or process colour with all types of designs. Very fine screen
rulings and accurate reproduction of fine details are possible, text
can be reproduced so small that a magnifying glass is required to read
it.
- Pad printing requires air drying. This can be overnight, or longer.
- Ideally, vector are should be used, from which the production of film and a plate are produced.
(Courtesy of JEM Promotional Products ©2007)
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