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Are you familiar with our pad printing ink line, the CG Series? If not, never fear. Together let us take a magnifying glass to CG inks to find out what makes them special. Spoiler alert! Highlights include: Non-toxic Dishwasher safe after heat cure Perfect for pad printing on drinkware, cosmetic bottles, and more!

Whether you’ve been pad printing for fifty years or are a mere fifteen minutes into your first pad printing session we are confident you’ll find answers, tips, and tricks that will help you along the printing journey. Read further to find a collection of the most common pad printing troubleshooting tips and answers. This blog

Have you sought out Inkcups because you have a unique item you wish to print on? Is that item made of rubber, fabric, or polyurethane? Or simply put, is it flexible? Here at Inkcups we strive to print on any material or substrate you can throw at us. Pad printers can accommodate printing many “non-traditional”

The pad printing process transfers a 2D design onto a 3D product by running a loaded ink cup over an etched plate which transfers the image to a pad then to the product. One of the first steps in the process is etching the plate. Plates can be etched by either fiber laser or CO2

Hard hats are not a common item to find in the everyday home. In fact, hard hats appeal to a very limited amount of people. But for those that require the safety of a hard hat, it is an extremely important purchase. Hard hat printing is another way to diversify your product line. The rule

The 2200-LS is a two color pad printing machine that incorporates a 20-station servo-driven indexing conveyor. This machine is perfect for high-volume production where parts are loaded and then offloaded into a box or bin.

DuraLaze is a pad printing cliché material that is perfect for a variety of pad printing applications.

Sean Metzler, pad printing technician at Inkcups, a leading supplier and manufacturer of industrial Inkjet printing equipment, discusses pad printing on cylinders.

In recent years the urge to go “green” has sprung up in just about every industry. The terms:” green”, “sustainable”, and “eco-friendly” have become buzz words and been so over-used without any clear indication as to what their definition is. They have effectively lost meaning. To us, eco-friendly pad printing means creating a safer environment

Pad printing is a traditional printing method which transfers a 2D image onto a 3D object. This process has become popularized to decorate products that are otherwise difficult to print on. This includes oddly shaped items with concave and rigid surfaces. The pad printing process has remained relatively the same over the years, yet the