Pad printing on promotional gifts

Pad printing, sometimes referred to as tampo, uses a silicone rubber pad to transfer ink from an engraved steel block on to mostly curved surfaces although sometimes pad printing is recommended for virtual flat surfaces.

Originally used extensively for golf balls and other spherical objects printed in spot colours. However, modern pad printing equipment is able to print full colour in a single pass on this, one of the most popular business gifts or promotional items.

With the dramatic improvement in technology tampo printing has become more acceptable for some prestige business gifts where its now able to print up to five colours. Indeed, for some Swiss Army products pad printing is one of the recommended processes.

Swiss Army products that offer tampo printing as an option include watches, pens, SwissCard. Golf Tool, SwissTool and certain penknives from the Swiss Army range.

You can check out some of the other personalisation methods by navigating to them from the navigation panel to the left of the screen after you have assimilated How Business Gifts are Personalised - Pad Printing.