Industry: Medical Material: White polycarbonate/ABS blend ..read more

Marking aluminum is one of the most common applications for a fiber laser marking system. This is because laser marking aluminum with a fiber laser provides many opportunities to make unique and interesting permanent marks ..read more

Tube Form Solutions, located in Elkhart, IN, builds tube bending, tube end forming, and tube cutting equipment. They design, build, and install tube processing equipment that requires tooling and services for the entire tube fabrication life cycle.  Tooling is a big deal for them and for their customers. So when Tube Form Solutions needed a method of direct part marking tooling they reached out to Jimani for their low-cost hybrid fiber laser solution ..read more

As a gunsmith or firearms enthusiast, you're always looking for ways to add that extra personalization and artistry to your creations. Today, we're diving into CO2 laser engraving and how it can transform a simple wood gun stock into an actual work of art ..read more

This post was originally written and published in 2016. At that time, fiber lasers had evolved to the point of being able to produce 50 watts of high-quality 1064 nm light for marking and engraving applications ..read more

A lot has changed since this post was first written and published. China is responsible for most of those changes, in my opinion ..read more

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Photonics Online. You can read the original article here. In a previous article, we spoke about the basic components of steered beam fiber laser markers and how they work together to comprise a complete system. We also spoke about categories of part shapes and what must be done to apply a laser mark to different shapes. In this article we would like to discuss the types of marking that can be accomplished with fiber lasers ..read more

Laser engraving on chrome can produce some truly wonderful results. The crisp, clear marks that laser engraving can make on chrome make it the perfect marking solution for any time of decorative marking on chrome ..read more

Fiber Lasers provide a method of putting information on metal surfaces. That information can be in the form of serial and/or part numbers and text, product branding with logos, product identification with machine readable codes such as 1 and 2 d bar codes and QR Codes or placing locating or fiducial lines onto a part. While some laser marking techniques simply ablate microns of material from the metal surface to provide contrast, laser engraving removes substantially more material when the marking has a depth or longevity requirement such as firearms engraving. Laser settings determine whethe ..read more

Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Photonics Online. You can read the original article here. In our first article, we delved into the basics of using a steered beam fiber laser marking system and how to make a mark on just about any type of material ..read more