Saw Blades & Cutting Tools
Robot-loaded XD-70 single-pass cells decorate carbide-tipped, abrasive, and bi-metal blades at 7,000+ parts per hour with full vision inspection and reject. Replaces pad and screen.
See the Cutting Tools application → →
Industry · Industrial Decoration
Industrial decoration that survives the factory floor.
Direct-to-object printing for the parts your line actually runs.
Hard hats, saw blades, control panels, hand tools, irrigation components, electrical components, automotive parts. EPS engineers print cells around the geometry, throughput, and substrate chemistry your application actually requires — built in Vermont, deployed worldwide.
6k+
Saw blades / hour on XD-70
40
Years engineering for industrial parts
100%
Inline inspection & reject
24/7
Production cell support
What we mean by industrial
Real parts. Production volumes. Zero label inventory.
Industrial decoration is everything that doesn’t fit into a clean cosmetic-packaging line: parts with rough surfaces, irregular shapes, oil and dust on the floor, multiple SKUs, 24/7 duty cycles, and absolutely no tolerance for downtime. EPS has spent forty years building the print engines, pre-treatment, and automation that handle exactly these conditions.
Direct-to-object inkjet eliminates the per-part materials cost of plates, screens, and pad clichés. Variable data prints serialization, lot codes, and traceability marks at line speed. Quick changeovers handle the SKU churn that traditional pad and screen lines can’t match. And EPS’s automation — robot loading, plasma/corona pre-treatment, vision inspection, reject diversion — turns the print engine into a production cell that runs without operator intervention.
Applications
Where EPS systems run today.
A sample of industrial decoration applications EPS has engineered. The list is much longer — these are the ones with the most production volume.
Hard Hats & Safety Gear
Full-color logos, certifications, and ID markings on hard hats, visors, and PPE — direct, no labels. Multi-pass UV inkjet handles curved surfaces and ABS substrates without pre-treatment failures.
See the Hard Hats & PPE application → →Appliance Control Panels
Wide-format flatbed printers decorate finished metal and plastic panels with brand, UI markings, and certification badges. Eliminates secondary labeling step and label-inventory carrying cost.
Buckets, Containers & Closures
Pail printing, lid decoration, and closure marking at production speed. Single-pass cells handle 5-gallon buckets, paint cans, and industrial pails with full-color art and serialization.
Hand Tools, Electrical & Irrigation
Hammer handles, breaker boxes, irrigation valves, automotive components — anywhere durable direct-to-object marking replaces silk screen or hot stamp. Cylindrical and shuttle configurations.
See the Hand Tools, Electrical & Irrigation application → →Wood Grain & Laminate Decoration
Architectural trim, decorative panels, exterior accent profiles, interior décor. XD-Series single-pass cells — three printhead sets cover top and both sides in one pass, SKU-locked RIP color profiles, automated load-to-unload. No film, no foil, no paint.
See the Wood Grain & Laminate application → →
Featured application
Saw blades: 6k per hour, zero changeover.
A leading tooling manufacturer needed to replace pad printing on their carbide saw blade line. Production volumes were growing 30% YoY; pad changeovers between blade sizes were eating 4 hours per shift. EPS engineered a single-pass XD-70 cell with robot loading, vision-based orientation, full inline inspection, and automated reject — designed around the blade itself, not a generic platen.
6k+
Blades per hour
0
Changeover hours
100%
Inspection coverage
“The line runs at full speed across every blade size we make. We measure setup time in seconds now, not hours. The economics paid back in 9 months.”
— Plant Engineering Lead, OEM tooling manufacturer
The right EPS platforms for industrial
Three platforms cover most of industrial decoration.
Pick the platform that matches your part geometry and volume. EPS engineers integrate the rest of the cell around it.
XD-70 Single-Pass
Belt/shuttle · 7,000+ pph
Production-speed single-pass inkjet for flat or linear industrial parts. Blades, hand tools, electrical components. Belt or shuttle architecture.
Explore XD-70 →Automated Pad Printing
Servo-electric · multi-color · proven workhorse
For stable, high-volume industrial parts where pad printing economics beat digital. Servo-electric KP/KE/PE series + EPS-engineered automation (robot loading, indexed cells, inspection). 3,500+ EPS pad systems shipped over 40 years.
Explore Pad Printing →FJet XL
Production-grade flatbed · multi-part
Flatbed scanning printer for batch part decoration. Multiple parts per platen, variable data, serialization. The workhorse for mid-volume industrial production.
Explore FJet XL →
Why EPS for industrial
Forty years of industrial decoration engineering.
What separates EPS from a generic printer vendor: we engineer the whole cell, not just the print head.
Custom cell engineering
Every industrial part has a different geometry, substrate, ink chemistry, and throughput. EPS designs the loading, pre-treatment, print engine, inspection, and unload as one integrated cell — not bolt-on automation around a generic printer.
Substrate chemistry expertise
Our chemistry team tests inks and pre-treatments against your actual substrate before the line ships. Pre-treatment is non-negotiable on 95% of industrial substrates. Failing at adhesion is failing at the application.
Production-cell automation
Robot loading, vibratory feeders, vision-based orientation, plasma/corona/flame pre-treatment, inline inspection, reject diversion, downstream packaging. EPS designs and integrates the full cell — not just the print engine.
Production support
These cells run inside continuous manufacturing environments. If the printer is down, the factory is down. EPS engineering support keeps it running — not a third-party service contract.
Engineer your industrial line.
Tell us about your part, volume, and current decoration process. We'll show you the optimal EPS platform and the production economics behind it.