Pad Printing & Hot Stamping


WHAT IS PAD PRINTING?

 Pad printing is an indirect gravure printing process. The copy or image is etched into a steel plate called a cliche. The cliche is inked and then cleaned with a doctor blade. This leaves the ink in the etched areas only. A flexible silicone pad picks up the image from the cliche and then transfers the image to the product.

Monode Pad Printing

WHY PAD PRINTING?

THIS SYSTEM is adaptable to a variety of shapes and contours on parts with a variation in the surface, yet fine detail and precise copy can be achieved. Two color process is obtained with exact registration. Pad Printing is ideal for decorating toys, plastic housewares, and injected mold components. This technology also lends itself to marking electronic components such as resistors, canisters, and connectors. Any part, plastic, ceramic, or metal can be production marked by this process. The equipment can be semi or fully automated, yet remains a low capital expenditure.
  
WHY MONODE?

MONODE has a system to revolutionize the way pad printing cliches are made. Historically the steel cliche has been a purchased item by most users because the manufacturing process required a photographic layout, a chemical bath, and precision lapping equipment. To meet the needs of customers who require flexibility of an in-plant cliche, a photo polymer wash out plate was developed. This process still requires a photographic and chemical process. Monode offers these traditional supplies in a high quality product at what is considered the best delivery in the business. So what is the revolution?
 
A cliche that requires no photographic process. A cliche that you make, using the Monode etching system.