GREEN Pad Printing

What is green pad printing?

Kent's award-winning "Green Pad Printing System" is an innovative pad printing process that employs a number of novel green features each resulting from new technology and engineering advancements. The result is an efficient and environmental friendly pad printing process.

The 5 elements of green pad printing:

Green-Cup

New sealed ink cup system able to reduce consumption of ink and cleaning solvent of as much as 90%.

Green-Plate

Low cost, environmental-friendly laser engrave-able printing plates provide great performance and high-quality prints.

Laser engraver (KCTP)

Direct Computer-to-Plate laser engraving machine. Eliminates chemical etching with films and acids.

UV Ink

UV ink dries instantly when exposed to a UV light source and contains 75% less solvent than conventional solvent-based ink. It is the most effective GREEN element to reduce solvent evaporation.

G-Printer

High-efficiency pad printing machines that use less labor, less energy and achieve higher quality and productivity.

Why convert to green pad printing?

Green pad printing minimizes pollution, lower production cost, reduce labor, and increase productivity. It is a win-win situation for all parties involved: business owners, factory managers, machine operators, and all people who live and work using pad printing machines. Awareness of pad printing pollution has been raised over the past few years. Many factories have had successful results by adapting to the Green Pad Printing approach. Not only did their factories become environmentally conscious, they also saved manufacturing costs up to 40%, changed their corporate image and increased their business by going Green.

If your working environment is one of those who are dumping tons of solvent into the air, pouring hundreds of liters of toxic chemicals into rivers, polluting our soil, water and air then you know we will have to pay for the damage someday. If we are not paying in this generation our children will have to pay for us later.

Success stories

Case Study

Industry: Medical

At the beginning of 2008, a medical accessories manufacturer approached Kent to improve its pad printing pollution problem. Their pad printing and assembly had to be done in a cleanroom. They ran 14 primitive open ink tray machines in a bad air ventilation room. They said workers breathed in more ink solvent than air in the pad printing room. It has become a threat to their workers’ health.

Industry: IC chips

A large IC “Packaging and Testing” company wanted to upgrade their old pad printing setup. They wanted to replace their 15-year-old IC chips pad printing system supplied by Kent. For the past 15 years, they have been pad printing IC chips using small pneumatic Kent machines (around 7-10 machines) with 10” open ink trays. They used polymer plates and 2-component ink. Efficiency was low and air pollution was bad. It didn’t match their hi-tech image.

In 2006 customer approached Kent for an upgrade. By mid-2008 Kent supplied them with the first of 3 Green-Printers with all green pad printing elements: KCTP laser engraver, Green Plate, Green Cup, and G-Printer. They increased productivity by 10 times and cut the reject rate to below 0.5%. They completely eliminated their old setup and went for Green Pad Printing ever since.