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Cliché Development

Engineered Printing Solutions designs and produces high-quality printing plates tailored to your pad printing system, ensuring precise artwork reproduction and reliable performance for every application.

Custom Plate Solutions

Plates Designed for Your Printer and Application

Engineered Printing Solutions has the capability to develop a plate uniquely tailored to your pad printer. Our wealth of experience with inks and substrates ensures that we can create a plate that meets the demands of your personal application.

The Plate Department works closely with the Graphics Department to ensure your artwork is translated correctly from the approved digital file to the cliché. This collaboration ensures fidelity, clarity, and a final plate that meets your quality expectations.

PLate Options

Built Around Your Job’s Requirements

Engineered Printing Solutions offers a complete line of printing plates, plate-making units and pad printing consumables.

  • We’ll factor in the length of the job and the technical requirements.
  • We look at how the product will be handled by the end-user
  • Determine what course of action needs to be followed.
  • And, if and when your job changes, we’ll do it all over again to make sure you look good

Alcohol or Water Wash – When selecting polymer plate material, cost and number of impressions are a determining factors. Polymer plates come in different hardness and are rated for jobs that run as few as 10,000 impressions to projects that extend for 70,000 impressions, or more.

  • Consist of a steel backing layer
  • Layer of UV sensitive nylon
  • Removable protective coating

.018″ or .020″ thick – For runs up to 500,000 impressions with a closed cup system, and less than 100,000 with an open well system and are available in various sizes up to 7.874″ wide, both in etched and unetched plates.

  • Bright polish carbon steel
  • Rockwell hardness of 48-52
  • Flatness of 0.2%

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When ordering a plate, EPS requires the following details:

  • What plate material are you ordering?
  • What size (width by length) do you need?
  • How many plates do you want to order?
  • Do you want us to punch holes in the plates for you?
  • Do you want us to etch the plates for you?
  • Do/If you etch your own plates, do you need any more supplies?

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