9.00 hrs
Welcoming presentation
Introduction
- Origin of pad printing
- Pad print process video
- What is pad printing?
Ink transfer theory
Ink film thickness

10.30 - 10.45 hrs Coffee Break

Pads
- The pad shape
- Special pads
- Pad size
- Hardness, quality, lifespan
- Pad handling

12.00 - 13.00 hrs Lunch Break

Plates
- Steel plates
- Quality of positive
- Polymer plates
- Polymer plate production
- Practical
- Multi-colour prints

14.45 - 15.00 hrs Coffee Break

Inks
- Ink composition
- 1 component inks
- 2 component inks and heat cure inks
- UV Inks
- Water based inks
- Additives
- Use of Inks
- Viscospatula
- Which materials can be printed?
- Adhesion
- Pre-Treatment
- Flaming
- Corona
- Adhesion Promoter
- Post-Treatment
- Drying
- Ionisation
- Adhesion Testing

16.00 hrs END

09.00 hrs
Material specification
Machines - practical (basic usage, mechanical / electrical)

10.30 - 10.45 hrs Coffee Break

- Machines - practical
- 2 colour possible print problems
- Causes / measures

12.00 - 13.00 hrs Lunch Break

Machines - practical (Group work)

14.45 - 15.00 hrs Coffee Break

- 4 colour process printing
- Closing summary

16.00 hrs END