Inking-pad printing system

A pad printing system, comprising

• a pad printing machine fitted with at least one pad printing unit to apply a print to an object in at least one print station;
• further comprising
• an object positioning device at said at least one of the minimum of one print station, the object positioning device being fitted with an object support to hold an object to be printed in a position where it may be printed in said print station, wherein the object positioning device is a multi-positioning device by means of which the object support jointly with an object to be printed are positionable automatically and sequentially in each of at least two different print positions in the same print station in order to print the object at a minimum of two corresponding print stations;
• the pad printing machine is adapted to print the object at the same print station sequentially at the different print positions at its particular areas to be printed;
• and
• said system further comprises a numerical program control unit for the operations of the pad printing machine and of the object positioning device, said operations of the pad printing machine and of the object positioning device being matched to each other by the program control of the control unit.