Screen Printing

Screen Printing creates an elegant and aesthetic look to the packaging. The process involves two steps. First, a design is screen-printed onto a container. This printed container is then cured, causing the ink to bind to the container. Quest's multi color process with specialized high speed equipment, can apply a vast variety of designs, from simple to complicated patterns, on almost any size, type, or shape of the container. Quest offers several Screen Printing processes to meet our customer’s diverse decorating needs, including precise printing registration.

To learn more about the different screen printing techniques, read our knowledge base article.

Pad Printing

Pad Printing is especially well suited to containers that have unconventional shapes. Most pad printing processes are characterized by three main features: a design etched onto a cliché plate, a steady source of ink, and a “transfer pad,” which transfers the design to the container’s surface. The transfer pad must first make contact with the ink-covered cliché plate. Next, the transfer pad comes into contact with the container to be labeled, transferring the design contained in the plate onto the container’s surface. Through this simple process, Pad Printing effectively places complicated designs onto containers that ordinarily would be extremely difficult to print.