Screen & Pad Printing Machines India — Flatbed, Rotary & Pad
Screen printing and pad printing equipment in India — flatbed screen printing presses (M&R, Vastex), rotary screen for textiles (Reggiani, Zimmer), pad printing for 3D objects (Tampoprint, Teca-Print), and digital UV flatbed alternatives.
Used for T-shirts, bags, promotional items, and industrial applications. Key brands in India: M&R (USA) — carousel automatic presses; Vastex — manual and semi-auto; Anatol — automatic carousel; Indian manufacturers including Shree Raj, Garg, and many smaller makers. M&R is the quality benchmark; Indian-made manual presses dominate the SME sector.
Rotary screen for continuous textile printing — Reggiani (Italy), Zimmer (Austria), and Indian manufacturers. Used by India's textile printing industry in Surat, Jaipur (block printing heritage), and Tiruppur. Being replaced progressively by digital textile printing in quality segments.
Pad printing uses a silicone pad to transfer ink to irregular surfaces — pens, bottles, electronics, automotive parts, medical devices. Key brands: Tampoprint (Germany), Teca-Print (Switzerland), Printex (Germany), Madag (Switzerland). Used in India's promotional products, electronics, and automotive component industries.
For short-run and personalised screen/pad printing replacement — UV flatbed inkjet from Roland DG VersaUV LEF2 and Mimaki UJF series print directly on objects up to 152mm thick.
Screen printing in India: India has one of the world's largest screen printing industries — driven by garment exports, promotional products, industrial graphics, and packaging decoration. The sector ranges from tiny manual operations to large automated carousel facilities. The main India clusters are Tiruppur and Chennai (garment screen printing), Delhi NCR (promotional and industrial), and Mumbai (packaging and commercial). For the best-equipped operations, M&R automatic carousel presses are the benchmark; for the mass of Indian SME operators, Indian-manufactured manual and semi-automatic presses dominate.