what's the mean pad printing

Pad printing is a simple process that USES steel (or copper or thermoplastic) intaglio printing. It USES a curved printing head made of silicon rubber material to dip the printing ink onto the surface of the printing head, and then presses it on the surface of the object to print words and patterns.

Pad printing machine type pad printing technology is a special printing technology just spread to China in the 1980s, due to its small area, concave and convex surface of the product printing has a very obvious advantage, make up for the shortcomings of screen printing technology, so, the development is very fast.In the early 90 s, with the further opening of China market, a large number of electronic, plastic, gifts, toys and other traditional industries as the main body of the foreign companies to enter the Chinese market in succession, pad printing and screen printing technology as the main way of decoration is get supernormal development, according to incomplete statistics, pad printing and screen printing technology in the application of the industry reached 27%, 64%, 51% and 66% respectively.Transfer printing refers to the process in which the substrate is an irregular shaped surface (such as instruments, electrical parts, toys, etc.), which is made of copper or steel intaglio by means of a hemispherical transfer head cast by silicon rubber, so as to transfer the printing ink to the substrate by pressing the plate.

Pad printing machine is mainly composed of plate device (including ink supply device), scraping knife, pad printing head (generally silica gel material) and printing table