Pad Printing · Engineered as a Line

Custom Automated Cells

Pad printing, engineered as a production cell.

When the print step is solved but the line around it is the bottleneck. EPS engineers automated pad-print cells — loading, pretreatment, decoration, curing, inspection, and reject handling — designed for all types of high speed manufacturing.

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Custom · per-line engineering
40+
Years of line engineering
24/7
Production duty
Vision
Inline verification
The systems

The building blocks of an automated pad-print cell.

Each cell is custom-engineered. These are the typical modules.

Pick-and-place loading
Robotic part presentation
  • Vibratory feeders or bulk infeed
  • Robotic pick-and-place orientation
  • Vision-guided alignment
Pretreatment
Surface prep before print
  • Flame, Plasma or corona pretreatment
  • Ionized air for dust removal
  • Deionizing for static elimination
  • Priming where required
Decoration + curing
KP or KE pad printer as the engine
  • Multi-color pad printing
  • UV or thermal curing
  • Inline color management
Inspection + reject handling
Vision-based quality verification
  • High-resolution machine vision
  • Reject diversion to rework
  • Lot traceability and totalizing

Capabilities we engineer into custom cells

  • Bulk loading and unloading systems.
  • Optical, proximity and laser sensing for part positioning.
  • Part conveying mechanisms tailored to the application.
  • Robotic pick-and-place capabilities.
  • Custom software for digital image processing and remote diagnostics.
  • Flame, Corona and Plasma surface pretreatment.
  • UV curing.
  • Post print conveyorized ovens.
Who this fits

When you need an automated cell.

Right fit when

  • 24/7 production duty without operator availability
  • All industrial manufacturing lines
  • Vision verification and reject handling required
  • Throughput limited by part handling, not the printer
  • You want a single accountable engineering team

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