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Printing Inks for Baby and Toddler Products

Printing of Baby Articles such as Toys, Drink Bottles, and Soothers

Toys, baby products, and medical accessories are examples of items with heightened product safety needs. It is vital to ensure the substrate itself and the printing inks are free from substances that could be harmful.

Pad Printing Inks for Sensitive Applications

TampaTex TPX was originally designed for textile printing, and is also well up at the front at a great number of further substrates. A main application is printing onto baby bottles, drinking cups, soothers, and teething rings. Renowned European manufacturers of baby products use Marabu inks for these sensitive applications.

Especially polypropylene and TritanTM are substrates which are used for baby bottles and soothers. There are very strict guidelines for these applications: Ingredients such as hazardous heavy metals, PAH, phthalates, and BPA, to name only the most important, are an absolute exclusion criterion.


MaquaPad MAP - the world's first water-based pad printing ink available on the market that meets all the requirements of the toy industry.

Water-based Digital Printing Inks for Sensitive Applications

Marabu is your development partner for projects where the biocompatibility of the application is in the foreground or where the advantages of water-based systems generally outweigh the benefits. More info here: Advantages of water-based inkjet inks.

Suitable Ink Systems for Baby and Toddler Products

MaraTech MGO

  • 1-component, solvent-based ink for glass and metal
  • Designed for screen and pad printing
  • For highest demands on adhesion and chemical resistance     

MaquaPad MAP

  • Water-based, satin gloss 1-component ink
  • Nearly odourless, lowest PAH values, made without BPA/BPS
  • Compliant with health and safety standards, e.g. EN 71/3      

MaraTech MGO

  • 1-component, solvent-based ink for glass and metal
  • Designed for screen and pad printing
  • For highest demands on adhesion and chemical resistance     

TampaTex TPX

  • Two-component ink suitable for a wide range of substrates
  • Successfully tested for toys, baby products and medical accessories
  • Compliant with health and safety standards, e.g. EN 71/3
  • Very good adhesion on various materials
  • Good workability for reliable and efficient processes

Water-based inkjet inks:

  • Singlepass process-suitable inkjet inks for absorbent and non-absorbent substrates
  • Know-how about the interaction of polymers, pigments and water as main solvents
  • Project-related development focus for best possible results
  • Recipes that can be adapted to all industrial printheads
  • Extensive experience with all common industrial printheads (e. g. Konika Minolta, Kyocera and Dimatix)