Pad Printing Machine

Definition. Pad printing, also called tampography or tampo printing, is an indirect offset (gravure) printing process where a silicon pad takes a 2-D image from a laser engraved (etched) printing plate (also called cliché) and transfers it to a 3-D object.It involves printing a 2D image on a 3D object. It is also known as tompography and tampo printing, an indirect photogravure process. This means the pad (indirect offset/ gravure) in the printing machine uses heat to transfer the image from the flat printing plate to the object.