Pad Print Machinery Of Vermont Announces XD-400-R

East Dorset, VT — Julian Joffe, president and founder of Pad Print Machinery of Vermont, has announced another development in the East Dorset-based company’s new XD-400 Digital-Direct-to-Print Series of pad-less product decorating machinery.

Wearing the designation XD-400-R, the new machine is capable of extremely high definition printing on bottles and other cylindrical objects. The machine was unveiled at last month’s glasstec 2006 in Düsseldorf, Germany, an International Glass Technologies exposition that took place October 24-28.

“We’re continuing to innovate and evolve the XD Series,” said Joffe. “We see this technology making strong inroads on more traditional methods of decorating products, especially screen printing.”

Joffe explained that the XD-400-R is an ideal piece of equipment for many industries including Promotional Products, Cosmetics, Food & Beverage, Sports Bottles, etc. “With this machine, changing from one piece of artwork to another on a same size bottle is instant — a click of a mouse. There are no screens or clichés to design and construct. The XD-400-R decorates a bottle in :05-:06 seconds,” he said.

“Digital-Direct-to-Print is definitely leading edge technology,” added Jon Hale, Pad Print Machinery Of Vermont’s COO. The XD-400-R will allow companies large and small to produce short-run batches of finished product without the downtime associated with screen production and changeover. “We’re talking about the difference between an IBM Selectric typewriter and a PC — that’s how great a leap forward the XD-400 series is,” he said.

The XD-400-R is a versatile machine that doubles as a flat screen printing device with a fifteen minute changeover from rotary to flat. Besides the original XD-400-1 Digital-Direct-to-Print machine that debuted at the NPE International Plastics Show in Chicago this June, Joffe and the Pad Print Machinery Of Vermont engineering team have also added a 6-color machine, the XD-400-6.

To learn more about the XD-400 Direct-to-Digital Series and the company’s other high-tech decorating machines, consumables, and accessories, view the company’s website at www.padprintmachinery.com.


About Pad Print Machinery of Vermont
Julian Joffe is the founder and president of Pad Print of Vermont. He graduated from University in 1976 with a degree in zoology, and worked in his father’s South African textile business. After taking over leadership of the company he expanded the business to include pad printing.

In 1981 Joffe moved his family to United States due to philosophical differences with apartheid. He allied with COMEC Italia in 1985 and founded COMEC USA in Yonkers, NY, where the company grew for the next 10 years.

Joffe moved to Vermont in 1994 for the simpler, enriched New England lifestyle. Pad Print Machinery of Vermont was born in picturesque Manchester, VT where the company’s number of employees and number of machines being built at a time increased.

In 2003 the search for a larger facility led to a 22,500-square-foot building in nearby East Dorset, VT. The hi-tech facility has a large showroom, machine shop, and specialized areas for graphics, plates, ink, sales, shipping and administration.

The Pad Print team consists of 35 skilled and motivated members who share a sense of team spirit and unrivaled experience in the pad printing industry. The company strives to create innovative ways to incorporate pad printing into manufacturing processes.

Pad Print Machinery of Vermont’s newest pad printing machines have combined technologies from the latest innovations in mechanical engineering and electronics. These machines are servo controlled and are extremely fast, precise, and reliable.

PPMOV leads the pad printing industry with breakthrough innovations in materials handling and other automated medical device printing systems.

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