Pad printing machinery typically requires some operator or supervisor intervention to setup the machine. Printing plate, ink and pad must be installed and adjusted for the product to print.
Reference points, like dowel pins, on printing plates and pads might reduce the adjustments but fine tuning with some specific technical skills is mostly still required to get perfect results. Printing results remain nevertheless very subjective to operator or supervisor accuracy. Quite some products may be lost because the print isn’t perfect during this manual setup procedure.
Our patented Automatic Color Registration [ACR] module and procedure avoid cumbersome setup eliminating the need for technical skills from operator and supervisor and eliminating the need for extra products that will be lost during machine setup.
Printing plates and pads are simply fixed onto the machine and the ACR modules use specific references on printing plates, pads and product fixtures to align all components to get not only registered colors but also to place the (multicolor) image exactly on the spot where you need it to be. All of this without printing any product, resulting in a first-time-right approach. And did I forget to mention that this setup procedure takes also only a few seconds ? If you think your operators or supervisors spend too much time in setting up your printing machines, the ACR module is what you need!
