Pad Printing, Thermal Transfer Ribbon, TTR, Hot Stamping, Date Coding, and Batch Coding

Packmark Australia is owned and operated by the Lucas family being first registered in 1971 although it was not until 1984 that the Packmark name was first introduced to symbolise our connection with the Packaging Industry and Marking and coding.

Today Packmark has a broarder focus and now specialises in a wider range of Printing Technologies including Hot Stamping, Pad Printing, Screen Printing and Thermal Transfer Printing for marking, coding, identifying, decorating and bar coding almost any type of substrate and product shape. Our core range of products are:-

For the Industrial Sector

From time to time we have various pieces of second hand machinery for sale. Currently we have the following second hand machines for sale:

Autoprint M16 Hand operated Hot Foil Stamping Machine - SOLD
Autoprint M52 Semi Auto Hot Stamping Machine - SOLD
Markem LP175 Reel to Reel Hot Foil Label Printer
Kent KIPP90 Pad Printing Machine - SOLD.

We believe that we are able to provide a printing solution for an almost endless list of Products and their substrates.Please click on any of the links above for more detailed information.Some of the products we have successfully provided solutions to include:-

Consecutive Numbering and Council logos on Mobile Garbage Bins(Wheelis Bins) both Waste and Recycle.
Brand Names on plastic Crates for both Bread and Milk.
Logos on Golf Balls, Golf Tees and Divet Buckets.
Graduations and logos on Rulers,
Company names on Pens and Pencils
Various printing on Goodwill, Promotional and Souvenir Products
Decorations on Fishing Lures, Brand names on Fishing Reels, Company names on Fish Rulers
Brand names on Washing Machine Front Panels,
Various prints on Buttons and Badges,
Company names, addresses and Logos on Magnetic Rubber Fridge Magnets,
Company names, addresses and Logos on Business Cards,
Various prints on Round Plastic Bottles and Bottle caps.

And the list goes on. Please contact us if you wish to investigate the possibilities of marking, coding, identifying, decorating or bar coding Your Product or maybe click on any of the links above.

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Hot Stamping also known as Foil Stamping or Gold Embossing is a letterpress or relief printing process that uses a combination of metal printing plates with raised images, hot stamping foil, heat, pressure and time.
In almost all cases the heat, pressure and time factors are delivered by a hot stamping machine.
The factors that make Hot Stamping unique are:

For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Hot Stamping Equipment OR Hot Stamping Foils or contact us.

Hot stamping foil is made up of a carrier film (normally polyester), the type of finish that is going to be transferred from the carrier film to the substrate being printed and an adhesive layer which is what actually adheres the foil to the substrate.

Pad Printing is a combination of the gravure (indirect intaglio process), offset and rubber stamp printing processes. It uses an image that is recessed into the printing plate (cliche). Ink is flooded into the recessed image, the surface of the cliche is doctored clean. The image is then transferred from the cliche to the substrate being printed by a smooth silicone rubber "stamp" called a Tampon or Pad. This is where the process derives its name.

For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Pad Printing Equipment and Pad Printing Consumables or contact us.

Thermal Transfer Ribbon, TTR, is a consumable of a digital printing process called Thermal Transfer Printing, which involves a Computer, Software, Substrate TTR and a Thermal Transfer Printer. The print is designed on a Computer with the aid of special design software and then sent to the printer. Thermal Transfer Printing has taken off in three main streams - Desk top label printers Desk top card printers and Date coding print heads for attaching to packaging machinery for the Food and Pharmaceutical industries. Packmark Australia have Thermal Transfer Ribbons, TTR, for all these applications.

For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Thermal Transfer Ribbons or contact us.

Date coding covers a broad range of technologies including Hot Stamping, Thermal Transfer (both desk top and coders mounted onto parent machines and label applicators), Ink Jet (both large character and small character), Laser plus a myriad of other devices that are used to date code products.

It is a subject that includes Date Codes, Batch Codes, Part Numbers, Identification Numbers, Bar Codes, Nutritional Panels, Ingredient Lists, Product Names etc.

Packmark specialises in Hot Stamping and Thermal Transfer. We sold our first Hot Stamping date code machine back in 1976 and have sold and supported many units since then. Thermal Transfer is a relatively new technology for the date coding arena. For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Date Coding Equipment or contact us.

One of the main aims of this web page was to help existing customers keep up with changes in the technologies that we support and also allow our customers access to as much information as possible to help run their business more effectively.

For instance it is increasingly difficult to keep up with Work Place Health and Safety requirements so we have posted the Material Safety Data Sheets in PDF format for downloading.

There is a helpful Plastic Material Identification section to make it easier to identify what plastic it is we want to print onto.

There is information on Marabu Inks and what they print onto as well as recommendations on pre and post treatment.

Plus much more so please follow this link to our Customer Corner Section. You will require a user name and password to enter this section. The username is the email address we have on file for you and the password is your customer account code as it appears on your invoices.


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	ABOUT THE COMPANY Packmark Australia is owned and operated by the Lucas family being first registered in 1971 although it was not until 1984 that the Packmark name was first introduced to symbolise our connection with the Packaging Industry and Marking and coding. Today Packmark has a broarder focus and now specialises in a wider range of Printing Technologies including Hot Stamping, Pad Printing, Screen Printing and Thermal Transfer Printing for marking, coding, identifying, decorating and bar coding almost any type of substrate and product shape. Our core range of products are:- *For the Industrial Sector* Hot Stamping Equipment for Letterpress conversions Hot Stamping Machines for the Industrial, Manufacturing, Promotional and Goodwill Products Sectors Hot Stamping Foils for sheet fed and web fed Printing, Plastics, Promotional and Goodwill applications. Pad Printing Machines for the Plastics Industry, Industrial, Manufacturing, Promotional and Goodwill Sectors. Pad Printing Ink Marabu Pad Printing Inks. Pad Printing Supplies including Cliches, Pads and all Cosumables for Pad Printing. Specialist Screen Printing Inks mainly for Plastics applications. Date Coding Equipment for the Food, Pharmaceutical and Industrial Sectors. Ratcliffe Bands Heat Sealing bands to suit the Ratcliffe Model RP Rotary Sealer. Thermal Transfer Ribbon for use in our Thermal Transfer Printers. Blank Die Cut Labels. for use in Thermal Transfer label printers. *For the Home Office Small Office* Card Printing Systems Equipment and supplies for printing business cards, post cards, name cards, place cards and more. Hot Stamping Machines for the Small Business / Home Business Sector. Pad Printing Machines for the Small business / Home Business Sector. *Second Hand Machinery* From time to time we have various pieces of second hand machinery for sale. Currently we have the following second hand machines for sale: Autoprint M16 Hand operated Hot Foil Stamping Machine - SOLD Autoprint M52 Semi Auto Hot Stamping Machine - SOLD Markem LP175 Reel to Reel Hot Foil Label Printer Kent KIPP90 Pad Printing Machine - SOLD. We believe that we are able to provide a printing solution for an almost endless list of Products and their substrates.Please click on any of the links above for more detailed information.Some of the products we have successfully provided solutions to include:- Consecutive Numbering and Council logos on Mobile Garbage Bins(Wheelis Bins) both Waste and Recycle. Brand Names on plastic Crates for both Bread and Milk. Logos on Golf Balls, Golf Tees and Divet Buckets. Graduations and logos on Rulers, Company names on Pens and Pencils Various printing on Goodwill, Promotional and Souvenir Products Decorations on Fishing Lures, Brand names on Fishing Reels, Company names on Fish Rulers Brand names on Washing Machine Front Panels, Various prints on Buttons and Badges, Company names, addresses and Logos on Magnetic Rubber Fridge Magnets, Company names, addresses and Logos on Business Cards, Various prints on Round Plastic Bottles and Bottle caps. And the list goes on. Please contact us if you wish to investigate the possibilities of marking, coding, identifying, decorating or bar coding Your Product or maybe click on any of the links above. ^ Go to Top HOT STAMPING Hot Stamping also known as Foil Stamping or Gold Embossing is a letterpress or relief printing process that uses a combination of metal printing plates with raised images, hot stamping foil, heat, pressure and time. In almost all cases the heat, pressure and time factors are delivered by a hot stamping machine. The factors that make Hot Stamping unique are: The fact that there is no other printing process that can deliver the bright metallised finishes that characterise the process. It is a dry printing process and requires less training and experience than almost all other printing processes. A wide range of substrates can be hot stamped; in fact all wettable materials such as paper and board, thermoplastics and duroplastics, leather and textiles, wood and many other materials. For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Hot Stamping Equipment OR Hot Stamping Foils or contact us. HOT STAMPING FOIL This topic goes hand in hand with the section above on Hot Stamping. Hot stamping foil is made up of a carrier film (normally polyester), the type of finish that is going to be transferred from the carrier film to the substrate being printed and an adhesive layer which is what actually adheres the foil to the substrate. The three most common finishes are Bright gold, silver or coloured metallised finish. Gloss, semi-gloss, or flat pigmented finish. Holographic images and patterns. For more information follow the link to our page on Hot Stamping Foils. ^Go to Top PAD PRINTING Pad Printing is a combination of the gravure (indirect intaglio process), offset and rubber stamp printing processes. It uses an image that is recessed into the printing plate (cliche). Ink is flooded into the recessed image, the surface of the cliche is doctored clean. The image is then transferred from the cliche to the substrate being printed by a smooth silicone rubber "stamp" called a Tampon or Pad. This is where the process derives its name. The factors that make Pad Printing unique are:- Possible to print onto uneven and curved surfaces ie a golf ball. Is capable of printing multi colour "wet on wet" with no need to dry the ink between colours. Extremely fine detail printing is possible ie a print resolution of 300dpi. Very large range of substrates are capable of being printed. For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Pad Printing Equipment and Pad Printing Consumables or contact us. ^ Go to Top THERMAL TRANSFER RIBBON Thermal Transfer Ribbon, TTR, is a consumable of a digital printing process called Thermal Transfer Printing, which involves a Computer, Software, Substrate TTR and a Thermal Transfer Printer. The print is designed on a Computer with the aid of special design software and then sent to the printer. Thermal Transfer Printing has taken off in three main streams - Desk top label printers Desk top card printers and Date coding print heads for attaching to packaging machinery for the Food and Pharmaceutical industries. Packmark Australia have Thermal Transfer Ribbons, TTR, for all these applications. The factors that make Thermal Transfer Printing unique are Does not require a printing plate. Is capable of printing sequential numbers and sequentially numbered bar codes. Almost anything that can be designed on a computer can be printed instantly. For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Thermal Transfer Ribbons or contact us. ^ Go to Top DATE CODING Date coding covers a broad range of technologies including Hot Stamping, Thermal Transfer (both desk top and coders mounted onto parent machines and label applicators), Ink Jet (both large character and small character), Laser plus a myriad of other devices that are used to date code products. It is a subject that includes Date Codes, Batch Codes, Part Numbers, Identification Numbers, Bar Codes, Nutritional Panels, Ingredient Lists, Product Names etc. Packmark specialises in Hot Stamping and Thermal Transfer. We sold our first Hot Stamping date code machine back in 1976 and have sold and supported many units since then. Thermal Transfer is a relatively new technology for the date coding arena. For more detailed information on the process follow the links above to our pages on Date Coding Equipment or contact us. ^ Go to Top CUSTOMER CORNER One of the main aims of this web page was to help existing customers keep up with changes in the technologies that we support and also allow our customers access to as much information as possible to help run their business more effectively. For instance it is increasingly difficult to keep up with Work Place Health and Safety requirements so we have posted the Material Safety Data Sheets in PDF format for downloading. There is a helpful Plastic Material Identification section to make it easier to identify what plastic it is we want to print onto. There is information on Marabu Inks and what they print onto as well as recommendations on pre and post treatment. Plus much more so please follow this link to our Customer Corner Section. You will require a user name and password to enter this section. The username is the email address we have on file for you and the password is your customer account code as it appears on your invoices. ^Go to Top Contact Us You are Visitor Number