Type of printing Plates/cliches

Excellent Pad printing results are attributed to the following inputs:

Traditionally the plates are generally of thick steel material which is made by a very special process of hardening and etched by chemical milling process. These plates are sized, ground, toughened, lapped, polished and etched. The whole process cycle take about 25 days. Hence standard sizes are mostly in stock and special clichés/ plates need time.

Standard cliché / plate sizes

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	10	mm
100	100	10	mm
100	210	10	mm
100	215	10	mm
100	250	10	mm
150	150	10	mm
150	300	10	mm

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	0.5	mm
100	100	0.5	mm
100	210	0.5	mm
100	215	0.5	mm
100	250	0.5	mm
150	150	0.5	mm
150	300	0.5	mm

Generally the following sizes are available

Generally they fit most machines. We use Japanese and German machines for making these plates.

The plates are made in a material contain properties to last at least 3,00,000 impressions but our plates are known to last more than 1.5 million impressions depending on machine, designs, pressure etc.

A good clichés will need a very accurate depth. The selection of depth is very important. For example if the lines are thin then 18-20 microns are enough but if the design has a patch the depth will need to be increased up to even 30-35 microns.

Printing on ceramic with ceramic colors will require more depth, hence only a specialist with years of experience can make these clichés.

Nowadays the cost of steel has really gone up hence most of companies find the cost of 10mm thick plates very high and they want thin steel plates. We also make thin steel plates, some sizes come in very high surface finish of ra value <0.05 - 0.09 mu. Both are extremely polished surface. The hardness of both type is 50 - 52 HRC.

As clichés or plates for pad printing have very high importance hence selection of proper plates or clichés is extremely critical for quality.

Selection of Clichés or Plates- The selection of plates or clichés depends on many requirements:

Based on nature of pad printing jobs

Is the need to make clichés for long term production? One design for high mileage. : Thick metal clichés or Ceramic clichés.
Is the frequency of change over very high? but each design needs only a few thousand prints, : Thin Micro Clichés/Aloxide clichés or thin metal clichés.
Is the production unplanned? Which means clichés by an easy process in-house? : Classic use of POLYMER Clichés.
Unique requirement could to print with liquid chocolate on biscuits or candies. You need resistance of clichés to water as the inks are alcohol or water based. Also non toxic effects and high mileage are required. This is a classic example for use of Ceramic clichés.

Based on machines size requirements of clichés

General sizes: 100×100 ×10mm & 70×100×10mm

We are making world class pad printing plates or clichés.

Thick steel, clichés/plates.
Thick Ceramic /plates.
Thin pad printing Aloxide plates.
Thin pad printing steel plates.
Roller Ceramic for rotary pad printers.
Steel Rollers for rotary pad printers.
Thin Nylon plates.

Steel clichés

Steel clichés made of high-quality corrosion-resistant chromium steel (hardness 63 Rc).

For many years, special casting processes and a high percentage of chromium have enabled our steel clichés to win a substantial market share thanks to their quality.

Steel clichés are also largely produced using laser engraving. This innovative technology is something of a novelty on the market.

Extremely high performance can be achieved with no problems.

Aloxide-Special

Steel clichés made of high-quality corrosion-resistant chromium steel (hardness 63 Rc).

For many years, special casting processes and a high percentage of chromium have enabled our steel clichés to win a substantial market share thanks to their quality.

Steel clichés are also largely produced using laser engraving. This innovative technology is something of a novelty on the market.

Extremely high performance can be achieved with no problems.

Ceramic clichés

"Ceramic" clichés represent a world innovation, once again demonstrating the innovative market-leading role of us.

After extensive materials research, we successfully put the "ceramic" cliché into series production. It is now a very popular choice among customers.

The "ceramic" cliché is distinguished by unsurpassed performance, lightweight design, no risk of corrosion and resistance to acid. Ideal for line motifs.

Micro-Laser clichés/Plate

The "micro-Laser" cliché band was developed by us especially for use in the "CTP" & "Hybrid" machine series. The machine series makes it possible through an integrated laser component to produce a cliché ready for print directly in the pad printing machine for immediate use. There is no need to change the ink /doctoring cup for this process.

The "micro-Laser" cliché is a 25 m cliché band coated with a special lacquer developed by us.

Micro laser cliché

Micro-Laser cliché offers you the latest in development in the area of laser engraved clichés. In contrast to the Aloxide cliché, the "micro-Laser” cliché is magnetic.

Spinks also developed the special lacquer coating for this purpose. Depending on the application, the "micro-laser” cliché is available with a lacquer coating (corresponds to the engraving depth) of 15 μm or 20 μm.

High-quality line motifs and grid motifs are produced with a laser system by layer removal.

The "micro-laser” cliché is available for all common commercial standard pad printing machines, as a cliché that is ready for print or unprocessed..

Magnet-Screen-Cliché

The environmental awareness and hence the resulting demands on our products are steadily increasing. Also the cliché production is concerned.

That's why our clients asked for an alternative to the present alcohol washable "

Magnet-Screen-Cliché The new water washable "Magnet Aqua cliché". A new product which fulfills the high quality demands made on a cliché plate at any time.

The production process of the cliché plate is very simple and almost equivalent to the "Magnet-Screen-Cliché". Only the wash-out medium alcohol is replaced by water.

Categories of Plates:-

Plate type	Life *(no. of print)	Size	Etching
Ceramic Plate	>100 million	All sizes of Pad Printing systems available, others on request	Laser
Thin imported metal plate	> 50,000	All sizes of Pad Printing systems available, others on request	Laser/Photochemical etching
Thin Imported water washable Nylo plates	> 20,000	All sizes of Pad Printing systems available, others on request	Water washable
Thin Ceramic coated aluminum plates	> 1,00,000	All sizes of Pad Printing systems available, others on request	Laser
Thin metal aluminum plates	> 20,000	All sizes of Pad Printing systems available, others on request	Laser
Conventional 10mm-11mm ,Thick hardened plates	1 million	All sizes of Pad Printing systems available, others on request	Laser/Photochemical etching
Rollers	>1.5 million	All sizes of Pad Printing systems available, others on request	Laser/Photochemical etching

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	10	mm
100	100	10	mm
100	210	10	mm
100	215	10	mm
100	250	10	mm
150	150	10	mm
150	300	10	mm

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	0.5	mm
100	100	0.5	mm
100	210	0.5	mm
100	215	0.5	mm
100	250	0.5	mm
150	150	0.5	mm
150	300	0.5	mm

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	10	mm
100	100	10	mm
100	210	10	mm
100	215	10	mm
100	250	10	mm
150	150	10	mm
150	300	10	mm

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	0.5	mm
100	100	0.5	mm
100	210	0.5	mm
100	215	0.5	mm
100	250	0.5	mm
150	150	0.5	mm
150	300	0.5	mm

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	10	mm
100	100	10	mm
100	210	10	mm
100	215	10	mm
100	250	10	mm
150	150	10	mm
150	300	10	mm

Width	Height	Length	Unit
70	140	0.5	mm
100	100	0.5	mm
100	210	0.5	mm
100	215	0.5	mm
100	250	0.5	mm
150	150	0.5	mm
150	300	0.5	mm