Cliché Plates for Your Project
Teca-Print USA offers a range of the highest quality cliché plates available on the market today. From low-run water wash polymer, to high speed production ready thick steel, we have the cliché you need.
Cliché Plate Materials
** Used for making your own cliché plates and sold in packs of 10. All below plates can be cut to size and punched for printing with either Teca-Print USA machines or any other manufacturers machine. **
Water-Wash Polymer Cliché Plates
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- Lasts up to 20,000 Cycles
- Environmentally friendly
- Recommended for open well ink systems
- Ideal for small volume print jobs
Standard Alcohol Wash Polymer Cliché Plates
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- Lasts up to 25,000 Cycles
- Recommended for open well ink systems
- Ideal for small to medium volume print jobs
Long Life Red Polymer Cliché Plates (High Res)
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- Lasts up to 75,000 Cycles
- Robust material for preventing damage
- Works well for open well and sealed ink systems
- Ideal for medium volume print jobs
Laser Engravable Cliché Plates ** NEW **
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- Lasts up to 25,000 Cycles
- Suitable for all standard laser systems
- Can be used with all common pad printing inks
- Works well for open well and sealed ink systems
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Graphic to Cliché Plate Services
In supplying us with an artwork or design, Teca-Print USA will manufacture your cliché plate for your project. A good cliché plate is key to ensuring a high quality print, so leave it to our graphics and plate making experts to produce a cliché that meets the quality standard required for your project needs.
Polymer Cliché Plates
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Consisting of thin metal carrier plates covered with a UV light-sensitive polymer coating, polymer plates are used across a variety of applications in pad printing. Popular for their high flexibility and cost-effectiveness, polymer cliché plates are ideal for small and medium-sized print series.
- Water Wash
- Standard Alcohol Wash
- Long Life Red Polymer (High Res)
- Laser Engravable
Thin Steel Cliché Plates
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Thin Steel Cliché Plates
Thin steel plates 05 are plates made of thin steel (thickness approx. 0.5 mm). They have a light-sensitive coating like normal steel plates and undergo the same etching process.
- Lasts up to 300,000 Cycles
- Works well for open well and sealed ink systems
- Ideal for medium volume print jobs
- Cost effective alternative to thick steel
Thick Steel Cliché Plates
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Thick Steel Cliché Plates
Coated with a light sensitive layer for etching, thick steel plates are made of high-quality special steel (hardness approx. 65 Rc) and are approx. 10 mm thick (plates with a thickness of 6 or 8 mm can also be used).
- Lasts up to 2 Million Cycles
- Made of high-quality steel
- Works well for open well and sealed ink systems
- Ideal for large volume print jobs