Patent ID: 8904928

Claim:
A pad printing machine containing at least one printing unit and a drive element, said unit being displaceable by the drive element into a print-image pickup position and print-image transfer position said unit being designed to implement printing in automated steps and for that purpose being fitted with a first printing pad support comprising a first pad support system or first pad seat for a first printing pad and a printing plate carrier to receive and respectively hold a printing plate characterized in that the printing unit comprises a second pad support with a second pad support system or second seat, the two pad supports being configured in a manner that the first support system or the first seat of the first pad support and the second seat or second support system of the second pad support shall face each other at least when in the print-image transfer position, wherein the unit is displaceable, in its entirety, from the print-image pickup position to the print-image transfer position such that no part of the unit is at the print-image pickup position.