Displaceable tampon support of a tampon printing machine

A pad printing machine comprising a cliché plate support which, together with a cliché plate it bears, is displaceable forward and backward in a first x-line between an ink pickup position and an ink delivery position, relative to an ink cup, in a first guide, the ink cup sliding on the surface of the cliché plate and being open toward the surface of the cliché plate, and where at least one printing image recess is present in the surface of the cliché plate and in the ink pickup positions, will be positioned underneath the ink cup and in the ink delivery position will be positioned beyond the first guide;

• a transfer pad carrier which is displaceable up and down along a first y-line that is perpendicular to the first x-line between an up-per rest position and a lower cliché plate contact position in a second guide when the cliché plate support is in the ink delivery position in order to pick up, by a transfer pad borne by the transfer pad carrier ink from the printing image recess of the cliché plate;
• where the transfer pad carrier after having been moved upward again from the cliché plate contact position is moved back again from the ink delivery position into the ink pickup position is downwardly displaceable again along the first y-line into a printing position;
• drive elements to move the cliché plate support and the transfer pad carrier,
• wherein
• the transfer pad carrier is displaceable forward and backward, at a first level at which it is configured higher than when being in the cliché plate contact position, transversely to the first y-line between latter and a second y-line along a second x-line in a third guide, where the second y-line runs perpendicularly to the two x-lines and is situated farther forward from the first guide of the cliché plate support than is the first y-line.