Pad Printing Inks

Tampo Canada Inc. carries a large selection of standard, highly opaque inks, additives and printer ink solvents specially formulated for the product decorating industry. These top-quality pad printing inks are available in single or two-component forms, plus UV-curable and sublimation types. This enables adhesion to various substrate materials, including plastics, metals and coated finishes.

All of our pad printing inks are supplied in medical-grade non-toxic (NT) formulations with reduced levels of heavy metals to meet CONEG and RoHS standards. Most ink types include up to 23 standard colors plus metallic, process and custom colors.

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Tampo Canada Inc. offers ink in two separate systems with any one of our ink types:

1. Basic Inks - Using 12 basic inks, we offer our customers the option of mixing their own special ink shades.

We will be happy to advise you or provide you with a wide range of recipes. Our ink mixing system according to RAL and Pantone is available online as an Acrobat PDF file (coming soon). HKS ink mixing system is available upon request.

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2. Standard Ink - The 23 standard and special ink shades available from the TAMPOPRINT® AG warehouse in Germany are premixed ink shades which already cover a number of applications. This area also includes European ink shades for halftone 4-colour printing (CMYK) as well as gold and silver (exception: ink types C and E).

We also provide custom colour-matched inks pad printing inks in any one of our ink types. Please send us a sample and/or provide us with a Pantone or RAL colour number in order for us to formulate.

Printer Ink Solvents & Thinners

We offer a wide variety of printer ink solvents: fast, medium, or slow for the particular ink type you are using.

Our Plastic Part Cleaner is a specially developed formula for cleaning misprints on your product without physically damaging the part. It works very well on Poly Carbonate, ABS and Styrene materials, but can be used on almost all products without harm.

Browse our ink catalogue to find the appropriate solvent/thinner for your ink type, or contact us to determine the type of solvent needed for your application.