Automatic one colour rotary pad printer //Usage and characters
The Automatic Single Color Pad Printing Machine is a high-performance industrial printing solution engineered for fast, accurate, and reliable printing on plastic, metal, glass, silicone, rubber, ceramic, and other materials. Equipped with a 4-station precision rotary indexing table, the machine enables continuous loading, printing, and unloading, significantly increasing production efficiency while maintaining exceptional print registration and repeatability. Designed for modern manufacturing, the machine features a PLC control system, a closed ink cup printing system, and dual silicone printing heads to achieve higher output with consistent print quality. The sealed ink cup reduces ink consumption, minimizes solvent evaporation, and creates a cleaner, more environmentally friendly production environment. Independent pressure adjustment for ink pickup and image transfer allows precise control for different product shapes and printing requirements. To ensure stable long-term operation, the machine is built with a heavy-duty die-cast aluminum frame that provides excellent rigidity and vibration resistance. An integrated automatic pad cleaning system continuously removes dust and excess ink from the silicone pads, reducing maintenance while ensuring sharp, high-quality printing throughout extended production runs. For fully automated production, the machine can be integrated with robotic loading and unloading systems, flame treatment units, UV curing systems, IR drying tunnels, and other automation equipment, creating a complete inline printing solution that reduces labor costs and maximizes production efficiency. This automatic pad printing machine is widely used for printing logos, text, symbols, and graphics on products in the automotive, electronics, medical devices, cosmetics, promotional products, toys, household appliances, packaging, sporting goods, and consumer products industries. Combining high precision, stable performance, low operating costs, and flexible automation capabilities, it is an ideal choice for manufacturers seeking to improve productivity and achieve consistent, high-quality printing results.
Pad printing samples effects
The workbench of the pad printing machine initially adopts a pneumatically controlled elliptical turntable. This kind of workbench is noisy and has low overprint accuracy, which has certain limitations for products with high requirements. Most pad printing machines now tend to install a circular turntable controlled by a divider. The circular turntable is set at a certain angle, and after turning through an equiangular arc length, different printing stations are formed.
The easiest way for the circular turntable is to install it on the monochrome pad printing machine to realize the continuous delivery of products. Due to the increase in the number of stations, this kind of turntable pad printing machine can be equipped with a pre-press flame treatment device, or it can be added Loading manipulator and unloading manipulator are installed, and they are linked with the UV processor or IR tunnel furnace in the subsequent process to realize the automation of product pad printing.
Machine description
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Robot pad printer with rotating table//Parameter
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Technical parameters
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- Max. plate size: 100×200mm;
- Max. worktable diameter : 500mm;
- Max. printing Area: 90×90mm;
- Max Products Dimension: 100×140mm;
- Max. printing speed: 1800pcs/hr;
- Printable color quantity:1;
- Air consumption: 166Litre/min(6bar);
- Station Number: 4.
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Works supply
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- 110V-220VPower supply;
- 5-7Bar Compress air;
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Package list
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- Wooden Size:1.78×1.04×1.81m;
- Gross weight: 355kg.
- CBM: 3.5065726
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H.S.Code
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8443198000
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Certicate
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CE
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Details-Advantage
Key Features
- PLC Control System – Advanced PLC control ensures stable operation, precise motion control, and reliable printing performance for continuous industrial production.
- Modern Streamlined Design – Compact, ergonomic machine design combines an attractive appearance with easy operation and convenient maintenance.
- Heavy-Duty Cast Aluminum Frame – High-strength cast aluminum construction provides excellent rigidity, vibration resistance, and long-term durability.
- 4-Station Precision Indexing Worktable – High-accuracy rotary indexing table enables continuous loading and printing, significantly improving production efficiency and positioning accuracy.
- Independent Pad Pressure Adjustment – Printing pressure and ink pickup pressure can be adjusted independently to optimize print quality for different products and materials.
- Closed Ink Cup System – Sealed ink cup design minimizes ink consumption and solvent evaporation while allowing easy ink viscosity adjustment for consistent printing results.
- Single-Color Dual-Head Printing – Dual silicone pad heads print simultaneously, greatly increasing production speed while maintaining excellent print consistency.
- Automatic Pad Cleaning Device – Automatically removes dust and excess ink from the silicone pads, ensuring stable print quality and reducing manual maintenance.
- Robot-Compatible Product Unloading – Supports robotic product unloading for seamless integration into automated production lines, reducing labor costs and increasing manufacturing efficiency.
Catalog
Machine structure
- Workbench: The workbench generally consists of 4-6-8-10 printing stations with an even number of positions. The entire rotary table rotates around the central axis. Each time a station is rotated, a pad print is performed. To improve efficiency, more than two products can be printed at a time. The workbench is generally controlled by a divider.
- Operation panel. The rotary pad printer is more complex than the semi-automatic pad printer. There will be a PLC for action control and data setting. The printing requirements of different products have been achieved.
- Pad cleaning device: In order to improve the printing quality, the rotary pad printer will be equipped with an automatic pad cleaning device. The ink remaining on the surface of the pad will be automatically removed.
- Ink supply system: The ink supply system of the rotary pad printer can be an ink tray structure or an ink cup structure. The ink cup structure is more environmentally friendly.
- Printing system: The printing system can be controlled pneumatically or by a servo motor. The servo motor control will greatly improve the stability and precision of the pad printer.
- Unloading system: Automatically remove the product from the workbench, which is also one of the basic configurations of the turntable pad printer. The manipulator is designed according to the appearance characteristics of the product and can quickly and accurately remove the product.
- Prepress treatment: Some products require dust removal, static electricity removal, and flame treatment. Prepress devices with different functions can be installed according to specific conditions.
- 4 stations high accurate indexing plate workbench, printing speed more fast;
- Closed cup for ink store, Protecting workers health.
- Coin aluminum Structure overall manufacturing, run more smoothly, life more abiding; .
- PLC operation system
- Print most products, which are widely applied in electronics, metal, plastic, gifts, furniture, household appliances, toys, jewelry, and other industrial areas;
- Electromagnetic valve and cylinder with the German and Taiwan products.
What is a linear guide?
A linear guide is a mechanical part that can guide moving parts - pad printer rubber heads, shuttle workbenches, manipulators, oil cups, etc. to make linear reciprocating motion along a fixed track. It is mainly composed of two parts: a guide bar and a slider. It achieves low-friction, high-precision linear motion through balls, rollers or sliding friction. It is widely used in printing equipment such as pad printers, screen printers, and hot stamping machines.
Why do pad printers use linear guides?
All printing equipment is a combination of mechanical actions. To make these actions run along a certain track and maintain a very low error, it is important to use a guide device. The original pad printer used a circular guide shaft, while the precision pad printer used a linear guide. The cross-section of the linear guide is a polyhedron, which can control the displacement of the component movement to a minimum.
- Ensure the accuracy of printing position
The linear guide determines the lifting and sliding of the pad printing machine's rubber head, the sliding of the oil cup push mechanism, and the guiding accuracy of the shuttle worktable, and has precise control over the ink transfer amount and printing ink layer thickness of the pad printing machine.
- Improve printing repetition accuracy
The pad printing machine needs to print the same pattern repeatedly. The stability of the linear guide can ensure the consistency of each movement and avoid pattern overlap errors caused by trajectory deviation.
- Extend the life of the equipment
The wear resistance and corrosion resistance of high-quality linear guides can reduce the wear of the equipment during long-term operation and reduce the decrease in accuracy caused by component loss. The pad printing machine uses linear guides for guidance. The core is to meet its requirements for motion accuracy, stability and efficiency. The specific reasons are as follows:
- Reduce vibration and shaking during movement
During the pad printing process, the contact pressure between the rubber head and the workpiece needs to be uniform and stable to avoid jamming and shaking. The linear guide moves more smoothly through the rolling friction of the ball/roller, which can effectively suppress vibration and ensure printing quality.
- Adapt to high-speed operation requirements
Automated pad printing machines need to take into account both efficiency and precision. The low friction characteristics of linear guides can reduce movement resistance, allowing the pad or workbench to move more smoothly during high-speed reciprocating motion, which not only improves production efficiency, but also reduces component loss caused by excessive friction and extends equipment life.
