Medical Device Printing & Marking

TouchMark is the medical device pad printing company that customers have come to trust for high resolution permanent markings on difficult substrates using USP Class VI medical grade and Biocompatible Inks.

TouchMark Specialty Inks:

Biocompatible Inks: TouchMark has extensive experience in the use of various Biocompatible ink systems. These Class VI Medical grade inks are widely used on medical devices including catheters, tubing, trocars, cannulas, heat shrinks, syringes and other surgical instruments to comply with FDA standards for products that may come in physical contact with the human body.
Conductive Inks: Ideal for applications including medical electronics, static elimintion, EMI/RFI shielding and membrane switches. TouchMark offers a number of electronically conductive silver and carbon filled inks for the Medical Device Manufacturing industry. Continue reading about Conductive Inks.

Radiopaque Inks: Ideal for printing visible tags used with X-Ray, MRI or other imaging equipment. X-ray-based medical diagnostic procedures where viewing internal markings is critical Radiopaque Ink is exceptionally useful. Continue reading about Radiopaque Inks

Image on the left is a Tube printed with Radiopaque Ink. Image on the right is under fluoroscopy.

Permanent Ink Adhesion, necessary in the medical device industry, is assured through TouchMark’s quality control systems, custom equipment and years of expertise.
TouchMark’s custom equipment is optimized to meet the precision printing specifications for unique medical devices including those that require critical 360° markings.
The markings are tested to assure high adhesion and are impervious to sterilization techniques such as Ethylene Oxide Sterilization, Gamma Radiation or Autoclave.
Critical medical devices are routinely processed at TouchMark to achieve critical FDA certification timelines. Working closely with design engineers, the company has come up with pad print solutions for these types of non-invasive and implantable medical devices.
Cleanroom printing capability assures that medical device manufacturing cleanliness standards are met and exceeded.

Medical Device Pad Printing/Marking Examples:
Micro Catheters Catheters Various Tubing Hypo Tubes Various Tubes Handles Trocars Clips	Adapters Shafts Syringes Housing Cannula Guide Wires Connectors Lenses

And other devices in various medical fields:

Vascular Devices
Orthopedic Devices
Dental Devices
Neurological Devices
Ophthalmologic Devices
Pharmaceutical
ENT Devices

Prototyping

Servicing the medical diagnostic industry for over 10 years, TouchMark’s engineering staff works closely with the customer’s Research and Development department to assure that the proper materials (PEEK, Polyimide, Nylon, Acrylic, Polycarbonate, Polystyrene, ABS, etc.) and best medical grade inks are properly matched for the device application. We work with you from the design phase to high volume production runs.

Testing protocols and specifications are developed as part of the first article prototypes which enables the printing process to ramp up to full scale manufacturing while preserving the customer’s cost and lead time requirements.

TouchMark’s expertise for medical device pad printing includes:

Trust TouchMark for all of your Medical Device Pad Printing and Diagnostic needs!

Permanent Ink Adhesion, necessary in the medical device industry, is assured through TouchMark’s quality control systems, custom equipment and years of expertise.
TouchMark’s custom equipment is optimized to meet the precision printing specifications for unique medical devices including those that require critical 360° markings.
The markings are tested to assure high adhesion and are impervious to sterilization techniques such as Ethylene Oxide Sterilization, Gamma Radiation or Autoclave.
Critical medical devices are routinely processed at TouchMark to achieve critical FDA certification timelines. Working closely with design engineers, the company has come up with pad print solutions for these types of non-invasive and implantable medical devices.
Cleanroom printing capability assures that medical device manufacturing cleanliness standards are met and exceeded.
And other devices in various medical fields:
Plasma pretreatment to improve surface tension and promote superior ink adhesion to difficult substrates such as PEEK
Material procurement, inspection and verification
Cleanroom manufacturing, assembly and packaging