Fiber Laser Engravers

What can be made on fiber laser engraver

CO2 markers

Their wavelength is 10640 nm, and it’s the best in operating materials like wood, paper, leather, rubber, and others, which are sensitive to this length.

Fiber laser engravers

These marking machines, if I may say, are made to deal with metals. Aluminum, stainless steel, brass, nickel, carbon steel, chrome, iron, tungsten carbide, and others! It’s possible thanks to the wavelength of 1064 nm. But don’t think that this type can mark or engrave only metals! It also works with leather, rubber, slate, etc.

Ultraviolet

It has the shortest  wavelength among the three, 355 nm, which allows it to process the widest range of materials. For example, they can mark silver and gold. Also they work with ceramics and plastics. Glass, acrylic, and different transparent substances which are “invisible” for other markers can be marked by UV one! All in all, with the fiber laser markers’ help you can engrave and mark logos, barcodes, QRs, images, inscriptions, etc. Spheres of usage differ based on the processed materials. From advertising to medicine and the car industry.

Criteria of selection a fiber laser engraver

Laser source, its power and the working field are the things to pay attention to. They are selected in correlation with the future owner goals and working materials. For instance, Max Photonics will make it harder to achieve a black color on the stainless steel than IPG.

Working field depends on the lens. Sizes can be different: 50×50, 200×200, and 300×300. Speed and the quality of the end result rely on the lens. Smaller it is, the smaller is the dot in which the whole power of a laser beam is concentrated. Sometimes the lens change can flip over all of the abilities of your machine! So, if the fiber laser engraver isn’t doing its job correctly, then perhaps you should just replace the lens.

Do you know which marker to purchase, or are you only thinking? In either case, contact our managers. They will help you to make a good choice!

Questions

What’s better: fiber or CO2 laser marking machine?

It’s not a question of primacy. That’s a matter of usage. What do you need a marker for? And here is where the answer is hidden. 

Can the glass be processed by a fiber laser engraver?

They can not normally affect the glass directly, but they can leave a marking on it if you place something underneath the transparent surface. Aluminum or stainless steel, for example.

When we put down a metal plate under the glass, a laser goes through the last one and accurately engraves the metal. Metal chips, which are formed by a high temperature laser, engage in reaction with the lower surface of the glass. So, we will see a lot of microscopic, metal particles remaining in the processed areas. And that will be our engraving in that case.

By the way, the image color on the glass will be the same as on the laying underneath it piece of metal.

If you’d like to work with the glass itself without any helping instruments, then you would need an ultraviolet marking machine, which can “see” the transparent materials.