Manual Pad Printer: 990 Series
A modular system for pad and screen printing
A good quality manual pad printer is a great way to start in promotional printing. The 990 series is an ingenious system that can do pad and screen printing and best of all it is easy to use and ideal for short and medium print runs. Some of our customers include larger companies who use the 990 series manual pad printer for small jobs as it saves a lot of time.
Changeovers between jobs and print colours are super fast thanks to the tray liners that cut down dramatically on cleaning time. If you don't want to use the tray liners, the ink well is teflon® coated to assist with cleaning up as well.
The 990 series manual pad and screen printing system has been developed to exploit the market in corporate and promotional gifts in particular, although it is equally as capable of printing onto a wide range of industrial products.
Advertising on useful items offers tremendous benefits to businesses and this has lead to much greater demand for personalised products and a great business opportunity.
Manual pad and screen printing systems:
990 Silver System
The Printa 990 silver system is our entry level manual pad printer. It is a single colour machine, but a two colour upgrade is available. The machine is supplied with a full consumables pack and exposure unit for in-house plate making. (Manual Pad Printer)
990 Gold System
The Printa 990 gold system contains all the items that are included in the silver package plus the upgrade to convert the manual pad printer into a small format cylindrical screen printing system for added versatility. (Pad and Screen Printing System)
990 Platinum System
The Printa 990 platinum system comprises of all the items that are included in the silver and gold packages plus a conveyor tunnel dryer for a professionally cured finish on a wide range of products and increased production speed.
(990 Series: Pad and Screen Printing System)
Plate Making Systems
The Printa 990 UV exposure unit has been designed to expose both water washable polymer printing plates and small format screens as used with the cylindrical and flat screen printing upgrade. It is the ideal solution where space is at a premium, but other UV units are also available (990 UV Exposure Unit)
All Printa 990 series manual pad and screen printing systems are offered with a limited lifetime warranty to the first purchaser, which is testimony to the quality of engineering in this unique system.
How difficult is it to learn how to pad print?
You may be concerned that pad printing will be very complex to learn, but with the unique way in which the 990 series manual pad printer has been designed, combined with the high quality training tools provided with the system, you will be up and running in no time.
Pad printing is an ink based printing process and is also referred to as tampo printing. The first manual pad printer was conceived many years ago as a way to print very delicate products, but it is now one of the most widely used printing processes around.
990 Series manual pad and screen printing systems are extremely versatile, since the addition of the optional gold package accessories allows the user to convert the manual pad printer into a cylindrical screen printer. There is also an optional tool to do small area flat screen printing. The 990 series manual pad printer is a high quality system that will make starting a promotional printing business a breeze.



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