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Article: Marketplace.(briefs)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- September 8, 2008
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Pad Print Machinery of Vermont solved a difficult challenge: printing on toothbrushes.
"Toothbrush manufacturers were coming to us with a dozen different styles of brushes and handles, and wanted us to invent a printing solution that would work for all of them'' said Pad Print President Julian Joffe.
The company, based in East Dorset, Vt., developed a pad-printing system that automatically loads, pre-tests, prints, post-cures and unloads a minimum of 1,500 pieces an hour.
One solution was a single-color XP-05 pad printer with a rotary table fitted with eight two-up fixtures. Another solution: a four-color XP-13 with automated loading and a ...