Pad Printing Plates for Pad Printing Machines

At Standard Machines, we specialize in creating high-quality pad printing plates tailored to your specific printing machine and application. With extensive experience in inks and substrates, we ensure each plate delivers precise, consistent results.

Our Plate Department collaborates closely with our Graphics Department to guarantee your artwork transfers perfectly from the approved digital file to the printing plate, giving you superior print quality and complete satisfaction.

We provide a full range of printing plates, plate-making equipment, and pad printing consumables, making it easy to support every step of your production process.

Every job is carefully reviewed—considering print length, technical requirements, and end-user handling—to ensure the final result meets your expectations. And if your project changes, we’ll adjust and redo the plate as needed so your prints always look their best.

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.

.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.

When ordering a plate, please provide the following information and ensure your artwork meets our requirements:

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?
If you etch your own plates, do you need any additional supplies?

For detailed guidelines, please click here to view Art Requirements for plate making.