Custom Pad Printing Services
Unique Assembly and Decorating is an ISO 9001:2015 certified pad printing company offering a full range of custom pad printing services for manufacturers and businesses across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Also known as tampo printing or tampography, pad printing is the most versatile product decorating process we offer, capable of transferring precise, detailed images onto nearly any rigid material and surface type. Whether your project calls for a single color imprint on a simple flat surface or a complex multicolor design on an irregular three-dimensional part, our experienced team and in-house tooling capabilities deliver consistent, high-quality results at any production volume.
Whether your project calls for a single color imprint on a simple flat surface or a complex multicolor design on an irregular three-dimensional part, our experienced team and in-house tooling capabilities deliver consistent, high-quality results at any production volume.
Types of Pad Printing Services We Offer
We offer a complete range of pad printing services designed to accommodate the full spectrum of part geometries, production volumes, and color requirements our customers bring to us. From straightforward single color projects to fully automated high volume decorating runs, our equipment and in-house expertise allow us to match the right process to your specific needs.
Single Color Pad Printing
Our single color pad printing capabilities include a wide variety of 1-color pad printing equipment and machines, allowing us to match the right printer to your specific part and decorating requirements. This flexibility allows us to accommodate a wide range of part sizes, shapes, and production volumes, ensuring your project receives the most efficient and cost-effective decorating solution available.
Multicolor Pad Printing
Our multicolor pad printing services support up to 5-color spot color and 4-color process printing with tight registration on nearly any rigid material or surface shape. Our in-line multicolor machines handle complex images with gradients and halftones at large production volumes, and our team has successfully completed multicolor projects for NFL, NBA, and MLB licensed products, pharmaceutical companies, toy manufacturers, and major food distributors.
High Volume Pad Printing
Our high volume pad printing capabilities are built around in-house automation combined with custom tooling concepts that our team designs and manufactures internally. This approach reduces tooling costs significantly and gives our customers a competitive edge on large-order projects where decorating cost per unit is a deciding factor.
Multi-Location Pad Printing
Using carousel-style multicolor pad printers with in-house designed tooling, our multi-location pad printing process allows us to decorate a part in multiple locations in a single pass. Printing multiple locations in one pass rather than running the part through separate passes reduces your overall decorating cost and shortens production turnaround time considerably.
Rotational Pad Printing
Our rotational pad printing process prints a continuous band around small diameter plastic, glass, or metal parts by automatically spinning the part under the pad during image transfer. For maximum ink opacity, the band wraps multiple times around the part, making this process ideal for products that require full circumference decoration on cylindrical components.
Surface Types We Can Print On
The silicone pad used in the pad printing process conforms to the shape of the part during image transfer, allowing us to decorate complex three-dimensional surfaces without distorting the image. This makes pad printing uniquely capable of handling part geometries that other decorating methods cannot reliably accommodate, including parts with irregular contours, recessed areas, and compound curves.
Compatible Materials for Pad Printing
Using both conventional and UV pad print inks, our process is compatible with nearly all rigid materials. Once we receive your parts, our team conducts sample printing and adhesion testing, including scratch, tape, and cross-hatch tape testing, to confirm the right ink is selected before moving into full production. Combined with our in-house color matching capabilities, this process ensures your final print meets exact color and adhesion specifications across every material type we work with.
Our Pad Printing Process
Pad printing, sometimes known as tampography or tampo printing, is a wet process in which three-dimensional plastic, glass, metal, rubber, or wooden part can be decorated. The image is transferred to the part from ink filled etched images in a printing plate by way of a silicone pad. Pad printing can successfully decorate three-dimensional parts because while transferring the image to the part, the silicone pad wraps around or adapts to the shape of the part without distorting the image, given some image size restrictions. Extremely fine detail and tight multicolor registration are readily achievable with pad printing.
Of all the product decorating services that we offer, we get the most questions about pad printing services. We thought it would be a good idea to share some information about this versatile printing method. Visit our blog today to learn more!
Of all the product decorating services that we offer, we get the most questions about pad printing services. We thought it would be a good idea to share some information about this versatile printing method. Visit our blog today to learn more!
Check out our "Pad Printing Explained" blog to learn more!
Industries We Serve
Our custom pad printing services support manufacturers and product companies across a wide range of industries that require precise, durable decoration on complex parts at varying production scales. From tightly regulated medical devices to plastic injection molded parts for multiple industries, and cannabis plastic and glass packaging to promotional products and automotive components, our team brings the process knowledge and equipment flexibility to meet the decorating demands of each project we take on.
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Our team is ready to review your project requirements and provide guidance on the right pad printing process, ink selection, and tooling approach for your specific part and production volume. We work with manufacturers and businesses across the United States and Canada and welcome projects of all sizes and complexities.
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Unique Assembly and Decorating, Inc.
2550 Wisconsin Ave,
Downers Grove, IL 60515