One of the greatest growth areas for both pad printing and screen printing in the past year has been mobile phones. In the UK, the demand...
Pad specifications. Whenever possible, use identical pad shapes for printing process-colors; variations in pad shape may cause image distortion. Make sure the pads are the same...
As with any process-color printing, registering four-color pad-printing jobs is a challenge. Before you can achieve accurate registration, you must fully understand and control all aspects...
For those involved in pad printing, control of the printing environment is a continuous quest. But over the past few years, pad-printing equipment manufacturers have seriously...
By Robert Chadwick, Comdec Inc./Ruco Printing Products & John Kaverman, Service Tectonics, Inc. (2002-01-30) How can I prevent voids in images when pad printing onto textured...
In pad printing, controlling and maintaining the condition of the ink is key to a successful job. Often, other uncontrolled process variables may create what is...
I am writing this column under protest. Not against the magazine, mind you, but against those company owners and managers who keep calling me to ask,...
With today’s proliferation of color, it’s easy to forget that black-and-white photos, movies, TVs, newspapers, and desktop printers once dominated our lives. In the past, if...
Did you know that much of the high-volume contract printing work once handled by domestic garment printers is now going to foreign shops? Learn why offshore...
If you feel you are in the dark about self-illuminated signage, you are not alone. While backlit display graphics have been around for years, material limitations...