Pad printing machine

摘要

In a pad printing machine, having a printing plate (4) which can be inked, an ink container (5) which can ink the printing plate (4), a pad (7) which takes the ink from the printing plate (4) and transfers it to an article (9) to be printed and which can be raised and lowered again by means of a device (8), the tolerance in subsequent prints is reduced in that the device (8) is designed as a ball spindle / spline shaft unit with a ball spindle having at least one longitudinal groove and one ball nut as well as a spline-shaft nut and has in each case a drive which drives the ball nut and the spline-shaft nut, the ball spindle being connected to the pad (7) and the drives being connected to the machine frame, or vice versa. <IMAGE>