consumables and services for pad printing

ad printing consumables for pad printing TOSH has always been characterized by its vocation for innovation when producing pad printing machines, and the same vocation is at work in the field of consumables for these machines. Our goal is simple and yet ambitious: supplying products created directly for the needs of our clients. This principle inspires our everyday work and allows us to adapt the performance of our products, such as quality, flexibility and wideness of range, to the increasingly demanding and changing requirements of the market. Constant improvement in terms of raw materials and...

clichés clichés clichés In order to choose a cliché correctly it is important to take these factors into consideration: • the amount of material to be printed; • the type of graphics: full prints, thin characters, halftones, four-color etc; • the quality of the printing; • the type of printing machine the consumable will be used on (open or hermetic); • the possibility to produce the printing plate autonomously. In order to ensure that each client is supplied with the most suitable cliché, TOSH produces a complete range of products of various types, in steel as well as in photopolymer; these...

Thin steel cliché This type of printing plate can yield 100,000 – 250,000 prints, if used with a blade or a ring blade. In terms of duration it is halfway between 10 mm steel and photopolymer clichés. Prices are decidedly convenient, and these clichés are used as an alternative to 10 mm steel ones when the necessary number of printings is not particularly high. Just like the photopolymer cliché, these can be quickly assembled by the client without any need for specialized personnel. In order to make this process easier TOSH has prepared a series of equipments which keep the assembly process simple...

Pads are, without a doubt, the most important and delicate elements of the pad printing process. They take the ink from the plate and deposit it on the object to be printed. During this operation they must guarantee that the characteristics and the quality of the graphics to be transferred are kept. In order to work perfectly, the pads must meet certain chemical and physical requirements which guarantee their operation. Choosing the correct pad requires a deep knowledge of the printing process, as this choice must take the following main aspects into consideration: • • • • • • • dimensions and...

Each single TOSH pad is produced in 4 types of rubber, with different quality, elasticity, hardness and resistance. White rubber These pads are softer but offer good printing quality and excellent chemical resistance; particularly suitable for machines with low printing strength. White rubber is produced in 2 standard levels of hardness: hardness A (0° Shore A) hardness B (2° Shore A) Yellow rubber Higher chemical resistance, in particular to catalysts. Yellow rubber is produced in two standard levels of hardness: hardness A (1° Shore A) hardness B (5° Shore A) The availability of a wide range...

With more than twenty year's experience in the manufacture of pad printing machines and accessories, TOSH produces a complete range of inks specifically developed for this technology. The excellent quality of the raw materials and of the manufacturing process, combined with an extremely modern formulation method, makes TOSH's range of inks one of the most advanced and complete available on the market today. Other than producing a range of 14 different formulations of inks to meet different requirements of application on various supports (adhesion, specific resistance, drying and aspect), TOSH...

Other than inks, TOSH also produces a complete line of additives. These are added to the ink to adapt it to specific needs. The most common additives are thinners, used to reach perfect ink consistency for correct printing. TOSH’s line of additives is a mix of thinners, with different evaporation capacities in a given period. According to the type of ink and its condition of use, TOSH produces: • thinners with different evaporation capacities; • liquid and paste retardants; • catalysts; • matt pastes; • antistatic and flow agents; • primers and adhesion promoters, and many other products to facilitate...

blade ringsde ringsbladesdes and and bla bla blade rings and blades The blading of the cliché is often considered the least important elements in the pad printing process. Actually, it determines print optimization and, more importantly, the life of the cliché. This is why blades and blade rings must be made of high quality materials with perfectly uniform thickness, and why the chamfer must be produced with absolute accuracy and precision. TOSH produces a complete range of blades made of high quality steel and blade rings in different materials. BLADE RINGS It is well known that, in recent years,...

screens screens screens These are used in pad printing to obtain clichés with screened etching, in steel as well as in photopolymer. To reduce start-up time to a minimum, in particular in open systems, screens keep the layer of ink uniform all along the engraving. If a full print is required, they also make it possible to avoid the use of hard blades, which are difficult to adjust. When making a screened cliché, the depth of the etching (and therefore the amount of ink required for the printing) is determined by the dimensions of the dots and lines on the screens, according to the desired result....

miscellaneous products Preparing a new job in a pad printing machine involves a series of secondary activities which are nonetheless important to the entire process. TOSH has researched and selected a range of useful and safe products, easy to use and more suitable for any production conditions, to avoid useless waste of time and its resulting higher costs.