Here is a video of the ICN-150L pad printing machine in action! Pad printing is great for creating tagless labels on garments and clothing. Tagless printing is fun and easy! Just watch the video and see for yourself! The ICN-150L features a linear conveyor, a great addition for companies with high production volumes or anyone who wants to get their pad printing done faster. The ICN-150L is a 2 cups machine, meaning it can do multiple colors or one color twice as fast. Featuring a 150mm ink cup system for large images, this pad printer has it all!

Printer used in this project: Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer Brand: ICN-150 Model: Two Color Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts… Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses More info: ICN-150 Tagless Pad Printer page Technorati tags: Tagless Printing, Pad Printing, Multi Color

Introducing the most versatile, capable, and cost effective pad printing machine on the market! The ICN-2200L is a heavy duty tagless pad printer that has a two color sealed cup pad printing system. This particular model is fitted with the linear conveyor, which is great for situations where future production volumes are unknown or are likely to increase. The ICN-2200L also has an XYR micro-adjust plate holder, allowing the user to get accurate prints every time! Its quick and easy to use!

Printer used in this project: Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer Brand: ICN-2200L Model: Two Color Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts… Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses More info: ICN-2200L Tagless Pad Printer page Technorati tags: Tagless Printing, Pad Printing, Heavy Duty

Here is a great new video from the Inkcups Now team! This video showcases our ICN-B100 pad printing machine. In the video you can see exactly how tagless t shirts are made in a real production situation. Apparel production can be time consuming, especially when manufacturers have to sew the tags onto shirts. Tagless printing is much faster and cheaper than tags, not to mention they look better and feel more comfortable!

Printer used in this project: Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer Brand: ICN-B100 Model: Single Color Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts… Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses More info: ICN-B100 Tagless Pad Printer page Technorati tags: Tagless Printing, Pad Printing, Apparel Production

Look at all these bright colors! Don’t stare too long though, may hurt your eyes.

Tagless printing has done it again! We were able to use our pad printing machine to print labels onto these bright colored safety shirts. These tagless t shirts are great for wearing at night time when it is difficult to see. Typically, people will be wearing these shirts for physical activities at night time, such as jogging or riding a bicycle. In these situations a tag sticking into the back of your neck can get really annoying and uncomfortable, tagless labels maximize the comfort level so people can get out and be active.

Printer used in this project:
Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer
Brand: ICN-150
Model: Two Color
Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts…
Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses
More info: ICN-150 Tagless Pad Printer page

Technorati tags: Tagless Printing, Pad Printing, Multi Color, Bright Colors, Safety Clothing

Make that tagless apparel look even better and add depth to an otherwise plain object by adding multiple colors! This tagless printing video shows the basic principle of multi color printing with the ICN-2500 pad printing machine. The printer uses 3 pads to add more color to tagless garments. Once the ink cups are filled with ink, each pad will be dipping into a different colored ink with only one part of the overall design. You see the pads pressed onto the fixture, where you would position the garment, in order to complete the desired multi-colored design. The ICN-2500 tagless pad printing machine offers a wide variety of features that allows the user to print the highest quality images with the greatest of ease.
Designed for rapid job setup, the ICN-2500 contains a programmable shuttle table and quick-release locking handles on pad and cup assemblies. Multi color tagless printing is just as fast and easy as using a single colored image! Printer used in this project: Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer Brand: ICN-2500 Model: Three Color Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts… Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses More info: ICN-2500 Tagless Pad Printer page Technorati tags: Tagless Printing, Pad Printing, Multi Color

Tagless label printing is the apparel industry’s newest and hottest trend! Here is a tag-less video of an actual company that is using the B100 tagless pad printing machine. As the video shows, it is very fast and easy to use in production. Not only does the pad printing ink dry instantly (which allows for stacking or direct packaging of the fabric), but it also has a “soft hand” texture (no rough surfaces.) The B100 pad printer can generate 1200-2000 prints per hour (depending upon the quality), and best of all tagless printing is cheaper than heat transfer!

Printer used in this project: Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer Brand: ICN-B100 Model: Single Color Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts… Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses More info: ICN-B100 Tagless Pad Printer Page Technorati tags: Tagless Production, T-Shirt Labels, Tagless Apparel

Shapewear is a new trend hitting the apparel industry. Shapewear comes in many forms, it is mostly referred to as underwear/undergarments. Lingerie is also a form of shapewear. With all of these tight fitting clothes, it makes perfect sense to print tagless labels using the ICN-2200 pad printing machine.

Tagless printing on shapewear has many benefits such as:
• No cracking on the label
• No annoying bump where the tag lies
• No Ribbon labels (those annoying labels usually located on the side of the inside of clothes)
• No grin through (reduces visibility on the outside of the clothing where the tag is)

You can always look great and feel comfortable at the same time, especially with tagless printing!

Click here to submit any questions on tagless printing on shapewear! The consultation is free of charge, no strings attached!

Printer used in this project:
Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer
Brand: ICN-2200
Model: Two Color
Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts…
Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses
More info: ICN-2200 Tagless Pad Printer Page

Technorati tags: Shapewear, pad printing, Tagless Apparel

You may have never heard of Pad Printing… yet it practically surrounds you!

Did you know that many of the colorful and interesting icons and graphics that make up our daily experience are created with pad printing technology? With pad printing, it is easy to add fun graphics and colorful art to almost any object including your own body! See for yourself. You might start the day off by putting on your new T-shirt and noticing that the tickly-scratchy neck label has been replaced by a neat and unnoticeable printed one. While brushing your teeth you may glance at your dentist’s name on the handle, chances are you owe this friendly reminder to pad printing. How about getting into your car? Changing the radio station or making a left hand turn? Take a good look at the text and graphics on the inside of your car, these are all pad printed. The logo on golf balls you hit into the woods, the graduations on a syringe that take your blood and the souvenirs you buy at a game are all pad printed. Many of the fascinating images you see around you were pad printed.

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Have you ever experienced problems while pad printing such as repeated misprints or voided prints? If so, your initial reaction was most likely that it was caused by the ink. However, many times it is due to the fact that the printing pad needs replacing. If your pad looks anything like those on the picture, it’s about time you get a new one!

By the way, for a limited time, we have a Buy 5 Pads Get 1 Free offer for you. Search our pad selection and call in for more details at 978-646-8981.

Common Issues Caused by Old Pad

• • All silicone pads have oil in them to pick up and transfer ink properly. If the pad dries out you may experience voids in the prints.
• • If the image is burnt into the pad that means it has dried out. This can be caused by using a high ratio of hardeners or thinners in your ink - hardeners and some thinners are aggressive to the silicone surface. This is normal and doesn’t necessarily mean that there is something wrong with your ink mix - but you will have to change your pad more often. (The life of the pad also depends on what substrates you print on, for instance, softer plastic materials is gentler to print on then hard metal objects.)
• • Pads can also get saturated with thinners, leading to poor ink pick-up. If the saturation happens, the pad will dry out quicker than it should.
• • When the pad durometer changes (due to dryness) softer pads get softer and harder pads get harder, which will also affect the outcome of the artwork.

We’ve seen a lot pads and done a lot of pad printing here at Inkcups. Our conclusion is: if you are continuing to use a deteriorated pad instead of getting a new one, you are wasting much more than you are saving because of all the misprints and aggravation.

How to Take Care of Your Printing Pad

Even the best pads won’t last forever. However, you can prolong their life by regular maintenance.
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Here at Inkcups Now we often get special orders for Top Secret projects. That’s all we can say at the moment. We don’t want to get into trouble…

Both items were pad printed with 3 different colors using our very own ICN-150. Paul began by etching the artwork onto a plate using the Cobalt 1000 while Pete mixed up the colors in the ink lab. After pouring the ink into the cups, Paul set them up on the plates. The choice of pads is very important as it needs to have the correct shape, size, and durometer for each part.

Before printing the objects need to be adjusted for the fixture to align with the printing plates. Fine tune the registration to get a perfect alignment of each color and we are good to go!

Here are some speculations about where these parts actually go: Space-Shuttle, Shrinking Device, Giant Laser Gun… And Derek just doesn’t know what to think of it!

Any other suggestions of what the objects could be???

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