Explore our collection of pad printing videos showcasing advanced machines and techniques in action. From single-color to multi-color printing on diverse surfaces, these videos demonstrate the precision, versatility, and efficiency of Deco Tech’s cutting-edge pad printing equipment. Perfect for applications in medical devices, promotional products, automotive components, and more. Watch to discover how Deco Tech’s expertise can elevate your printing projects.

The ML-350 pad printer is a Swiss-engineered, motor-driven pad printing machine designed for both single and multi-color applications. It features a hybrid control system combining linear motor and pneumatic controls, with the ML-350E variant offering servo motor control for the vertical axis. The machine accommodates various closed ink cup sizes, ranging from 56mm to 120mm in diameter, and can be configured with an open inkwell system. Optional features include an automatic tape pad cleaning system and an ink viscosity control system. The ML-350 supports integration with multi-axis robots, servo-driven linear part shuttles, or servo-driven carousels, enhancing automation capabilities. Its precision engineering ensures fast job changeovers, high production speeds, and consistent print quality, making it suitable for industries such as medical devices, automotive components, and consumer goods.

The ML-500 pad printer is a versatile, motor-driven pad printing machine from microPrint, designed for universal multi-color printing applications. It features a hybrid control system with linear motor and pneumatic controls, with the ML-500E model offering servo motor control for the vertical axis. The machine can be equipped with multiple closed ink cups, ranging from 56mm to 140mm in diameter, or configured with an open inkwell system. Optional enhancements include an automatic tape pad cleaning system and an automatic ink viscosity control system. The ML-500 is compatible with multi-axis robots, servo-driven linear part shuttles, or servo-driven carousels, facilitating seamless integration into automated production lines. Its robust construction and advanced features make it ideal for high-precision printing tasks across various industries, including medical devices, automotive parts, and consumer electronics.

The Smart 130 pad printer is a compact and economical one-color pad printing machine engineered for precision and efficiency. Manufactured in Switzerland by microPrint, it features a sealed ink cup up to 120mm, allowing for a large print area of 4.3 inches in diameter. The machine offers a production speed of up to 2,000 cycles per hour, making it suitable for high-volume operations. An optional automatic tape pad cleaning device enhances print quality and reduces maintenance. The touchpad interface with a multi-line LCD display facilitates easy operation, while the laser-cut and welded steel construction ensures durability and vibration-free performance. Built with world-class components, the Smart 130 delivers accurate and consistent printing results.

The Smart 250 pad printer is a versatile pad printing machine capable of handling one to three colors, designed to meet diverse printing needs. Also manufactured in Switzerland by microPrint, it accommodates various ink cup sizes—56mm, 70mm, 86mm, and 120mm—providing flexibility for different print dimensions. The machine achieves production speeds of up to 2,000 cycles per hour, ensuring efficiency in multi-color printing applications. It can be equipped with an optional tape pad cleaning device to maintain high print quality. The touch screen interface with an LCD display offers user-friendly controls, and the open work area allows for quick setups and easy part loading. With laser-welded steel frame construction and top-quality components, the Smart 250 ensures long-term reliability and precise color-to-color registration.

The MSS-130 pad printer is a Swiss-engineered, single-color pad printing machine designed for precision and versatility. Its unique feature is the ability to pivot the printing pad upward by 90 degrees, enabling printing on horizontal planes and complex product edges. This capability makes it ideal for applications in electronics, medical devices, and automotive components. The machine offers flexible operator interface panel placement, either on the front or backside, facilitating seamless integration into automated production lines or standalone operations. Optional features include a programmable automatic pad cleaning device and the VISCOMATIC™ ink viscosity control system, which continuously monitors and adjusts ink viscosity for consistent print quality. Built with precision in Switzerland, the MSS-130 ensures fast setup, high production speeds, and reliable performance.

The MSS-350 pad printer is a multi-color pad printing machine that combines innovation with Swiss precision engineering. It features a swiveling pad mechanism capable of rotating 90 degrees, allowing for printing on horizontal surfaces and complex geometries. The MSS-350 can be configured with up to six colors, accommodating various ink cup sizes to meet diverse printing requirements. The operator interface panel can be mounted on either the front or backside, providing flexibility for integration into automated production cells or use as a standalone printer. Standard features include an automatic pad cleaning device that utilizes deionized tape for maintaining pad cleanliness, and the optional VISCOMATIC™ ink viscosity control system for consistent ink management. The MSS-350 is particularly suited for applications in medical devices, automotive components, and cosmetic packaging, delivering high-quality, multi-color prints with efficiency and precision.

Swiss precision built microPrint Pad Printing Automation (model LCN-131 x 2 units) for decorating plastic caps. Machine is equiped with bowl feeding, corona treating, dual rotary tables, and automatic NIR drying conveyor. This pad printing automation also features an automatic boxing conveyor with a counting device to move the next box into place when the previous boxes are full.

The microPrint Modul 220 is a Swiss-engineered, linear motor-driven pad printing machine designed for high-volume, one-color printing applications. It features a modular design, allowing integration into automated systems with centralized control via a single touch screen and Beckhoff PLC. Each Modul 220 head accommodates 180mm or 200mm magnetic ink cups with adjustable pneumatic pressure, enabling precise ink application. The user-friendly touchscreen interface allows programming of pad and cliché positions (X/Y/Z) and customizable print sequences using intuitive graphic icons. The machine supports multiple ink pickups per cycle for enhanced opacity, particularly beneficial when printing large white backgrounds on dark substrates. Equipped with an Ethernet interface, the Modul 220 facilitates parameter saving and remote access for diagnostics and software updates. This machine is ideal for industries requiring efficient, high-quality printing on various substrates. For more information, contact the experts at (714) 639-DECO

The DT-200-4C-OT is a semi-automatic pad printing machine engineered for high-quality decoration of small parts in up to four colors. Equipped with a servo-driven 14-station oval track indexer, it ensures precise positioning and efficient workflow. This machine is ideal for items such as skateboard wheels, lighters, ice scrapers, and mint tins. Recent enhancements include a Mitsubishi PLC with a Weinview touchscreen for intuitive operation. The DT-200-4C-OT features four 90mm ink cups and individually adjustable 100 x 300mm cliché holders, accommodating various plate materials like photopolymer, thin steel, thick steel, or laser-etched varieties. Built with a solid welded steel base, adjustable floor levelers, and a height-adjustable worktable, it offers stability and adaptability. This machine is backed by a one-year warranty against manufacturing defects. For more information, contact the experts at (714) 639-DECO.

This video shows the microPrint 5 STAR servo-driven indexed rotary pad-printing machine in action and the 5 STAR is perfect for today's progressive injection molding houses or custom decorators, as it can quickly be set-up to run as a single color pad printer or a 5 color tight registration pad-printing job. This highly versatile pad printing machine is used for printing both large and small parts and can be outfitted with a variety of automation devices including X/Y part movement controls using servo motors and ball screws for precision alignment.

An LCN-151 pad printer has been fully integrated into an automated rotary table system complete with bowl feeding system and these plastic beer caps are printed 6 at a time. This automation also includes automatic loading, corona pre-treatment, 6 up pad printing and automatic eject system into a bulk storage container. The nesting fixtures are cam activated (opened and closed) for secure part holding during the printing operation and are opened for easy unloading.

This video demonstrates the two smallest pad printers in the microPrint MS series and it shows both open inkwell and closed cup configurations. The MS-250 is shown decorating a Toyota interior bezel with special (programmed and sensor controlled) ability to detect two different part styles and either print 1 or 2 graphics as the two different but similar parts dictate.

The LCN-132 is outfitted with 3 x 56mm ink cups and this pad transfer printing system is automated with a 2 position rotary table and these micro sized electronic parts are printed in three locations around the circumference. Parts are automatically ejected into a bulk container and the inks dry rapidly.

This microPrint built pad printing system is shown printing 360° onto round medical parts with high opaque white pad print ink. The parts are manually loaded (light curtain activated) and then they are corona treated with a SICATECH LF-1 unit. The MS-250 pad printer has been set-up with a servo driven rotary pad attachment and the parts are also rotated with servo motor for perfect repeatability.

This video shows the MS-250 pad printing machine applying numbers around a BRAUN coffee pot control knobs outer circumference. microPrint developed this special printing attachment and it can be mounted on many different microPrint machine models. The rotary pad attachment is servo-driven and can be infinitely adjusted.

This short video clip shows the microPrint MS-320 equipped with linear motor controlled pad shift device in action. This pad print press is equipped with a single cliché with the 4 color artworks being pre-registered in the pre-press department using Adobe Photoshop to align the 4 separate colors.

This movie shows the ML-350 (formerly known as MS-350L) linear motor driven pad printer decorating multi-colors on polycarbonate syringe barrels with a servo driven linear part shuttle with servo driven part rotation device. The machine is also equipped with pneumatically actuated pad lifters to allow for part clearance during the printing operation. Both X/Y positions for ink pick up and printing are fully programmable from the touch-screen.

This special pad printing machine has been designed to print variable data using a PC to program and control the two linear motors. What is typed into the laptops data fields (up to 3 lines of text) such as; names, part numbers is then automatically printed onto the parts in a programmable location. This machine has been sold for several industrial applications including dental teeth color swatch panels, personalization of pens and printing onto various aerospace/ electronic components for printing variable part numbers and special logos and characters.

The MS-500 pad printing machine is outfitted with 14 station servo driven carousel part indexer and it also features automatic tape pad cleaning device and ball push-down device to seat the balls into the nesting fixtures securely. It also features a pneumatic push-up "finger" to lift the balls out of the nests after printing. This pad transfer printing system features individual cliché holders with X/Y & R adjustment on each cliché.

The MS-500 pad printing machine shown with servo driven part shuttle and automatic tape pad cleaning device. The MS-500 can be equipped with either sealed ink cups or open/ covered inkwell systems and this customer selected the open inkwell configuration for super fast printing plate changeovers. These mint tins are very popular ASI items and corporate logos are easily printed on the candy tin lids.

This machine video shows the MS-500 pad transfer machine equipped with five special rotary pad attachments that allow for 1 to 5 color programmable pad printing onto lip balm tubes. The lip balm cylinders are manually loaded onto the mandrel and the pads are servo indexed along with the part rotation also being servo indexed for precision printing. The five pads are mounted to a linear motor shuttle system and the rigid tubes are air-ejected after printing.

This pad print system is decorating on 4 sides of paper blocks or cubes using a 2 position rotary table with automatic turning device (4 times). The four silicone pads are outfitted on linear motor shift device to move the pads for printing the 4 colors in tight registration. The paper cube clamping system is also outfitted with an auto centering device to ensure that the cubes are all printed in the same location and automatic pad cleaning ensures high quality printing results every cycle.

This automation has been designed to pad print paper cubes and it shows the multi sided handling system turning the paper cubes automatically and the system can detect when all four sides have been pad printed and then it moves them to the loading and unloading bay where the operator will load the pallets with fresh unprinted paper blocks. All printing plate parameters are easily programmed as the Modul machines are outfitted with three axis (X/Y/Theta) linear motor controls and you can align artworks without making any mechanical adjustments.

This video shows the multi-axis programmable (CNC controlled) Modul series pad printing machines designed for decorating various models of a European glue gun housing. The machinery has been programmed to print several different models of these parts without having to change the clichés and all printing positions are memorized in the machine and are quickly recalled for super fast set-ups.

This unique pad printing system has been designed for decorating BRAUN iron housings in multiple locations. The Modul series of pad printing machines are linear motor controlled and they can be CNC programmed to print complex shaped parts in virtually any axis. The video shows pre-treatment of the parts with gas plasma and shows the iron housing being fully rotated and articulated to print several graphics in many locations.

The microPrint ML-350 is shown herein decorating 3-dimensional parts with the robotic part turning device that is fully programmable from the touch screen. Dual axis linear motor controls allow the ML-350 to plot and print graphics in various programmable locations and jobs can be stored in the on board PLC controls.