The story of the Puqpress is one of our favourite examples of engineering meeting caffeine. Drawing on his experience stabilising massive oil rigs, Dutch engineer Laurens Pluimers overheard a barista complaining about the physical toll of manual tamping. In a single day, Pluimers built a prototype designed to stabilise a coffee bed with the same precision he applied to 10,000-ton sea vessels.

By 2015, that prototype had evolved into the Puqpress Q1, the world’s first commercial automatic precision tamper. In the decade since, PUQ has fundamentally shifted the coffee industry’s approach, taking tamping from an inconsistent human variable into a repeatable mechanical science. The Puqpress Q (formerly known as the Q2) doesn’t just save your baristas' wrists; it removes a massive source of extraction error, ensuring your shots are as consistent at 4 PM as they were at 8 AM. It does so in about a second (depending on the profile set), and it allows you to set the tamping pressure at your desired level (by kilogram). It can fit pretty much any portafilter, naked or with spouts, and with embedded non-stick nanotechnology the tamping surface retains no coffee grounds. 

The Puqpress has become a high-volume café staple, primarily due to its ability to deliver a perfectly level, high-pressure tamp entirely hands-free. Just insert your waiting portafilter with coffee grounds and it tamps! It effectively "levels the playing field" between a novice barista and a world champion, ensuring that the puck is identical every single time, which is essential for dialling in precise recipes across long, busy shifts. 

About the Gen 6 Puqpress Q

The Puqpress Q is intended for high-volume, professional, café environments. In fact, PUQ has built it so tough that this automatic tamper comes with a 2-year warranty, or 300,000 tamps. You can literally tamp all day long, and this little machine will never miss a beat. Another notable upgrade, the sixth generation Q has a more resilient motor, designed to handle up to 25kg of coffee per week with even greater reliability than its predecessor. 

Features such as a non-stick nanotechnology coating on the tamper head to reduce static, and a snug-fitting clamping system compatible with 53mm to 58.3mm portafilter have made it a favourite for baristas wanting to focus on customer service, rather than physical labour. The Puqpress Q is compact, attractive, and quite frankly a necessity if your coffee operation demands extraction consistency.

Puqpress Q Precision Coffee Tamper features

• Completely consistent tamping
• Built for high volumes (up to 25kg per week)
• Auto activation (by inserting tamper)
• Adjustable portafilter height
• Fits any portafilter from 53mm to 58mm
• Works with all types of portafilters: Naked, single-spout & double-spouts
• Pressure can be set by kg (between 5 & 30 kgs)
• Small footprint
• Nanotechnology non-stick tamp head
• 5 different tamp profiles: speedy, precision, hulk, soft, single

Puqpress Q Precision Coffee Tamper specifications

• Tamp shape: Flat bottom
• Compatibility: 53 - 58mm tamping surface (adjustable)
• Weight: 3.8kg net weight
• Dimensions: 195 × 141 × 283 mm
• Power: 76W
• Warranty: 2 years (300,000 tamps)
• Approvals: CB, CE, cETLus, KTC, EAC, NSF-8, PSE