Have you ever wondered what it looks like to etch a design onto an object with a laser? Well now you can! Here is a video of the Cobalt 300 in action! A high speed Co2 Laser engraving and plate making machine. The video demonstrates the power of the Co2 laser and the speed of the fast servo driven motor. Great for anyone in the pad printing industry. You can now etch your plates in house instead of going through a third party (which costs time and money.) Making plates in house can give your company the edge it needs, allowing you to change the images you imprint almost instantly! It only takes 1-2 minutes to etch an image onto a plate opposed to polymer plate making which takes at least 15 minutes.

Easily programmable to do multiple jobs! Start etching your own plates today! Laser etcher used in this project: Type: Co2 Laser Brand: Cobalt Model: 300 Standard applications: Plate-making, pen engraving, knife engraving, tool engraving… Unconventional applications: Up to you, just use caution… More info: Cobalt 300 Laser Etcher Page - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Technorati tags: Co2 Laser Etcher, Plate Making, Laser Engraving,Cobalt 300

Check out these great uniforms! Know what the best part is? That’s right! they’re tagless!

Tagless printing on uniforms are essential for professionals to look professional. There is no tag sticking out of the uniform or poking through the back. Look at the pictures of the scrubs, employees are often wearing just these uniforms for long periods of time. It is important that the people wearing these feel comfort. Thanks to tagless printing, there are no more annoying tags that stick into the back of the neck and provide discomfort!

Click here to submit any questions on tagless printing on uniforms! The consultation is free of charge, no strings attached!

Printer used in this project:
Type: Semi-Automatic Pad Printer
Brand: ICN-150
Model: Two Color

Standard applications: neck tagless labels, pens, stress balls, other metal and plastic parts…
Unconventional applications: cookies, contact lenses
More info: ICN-150 Tagless Pad Printer Page

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Today we etched some laser engraved pens for a customer’s specific design! The process was made easy by using the Cobalt 1000 YAG laser etcher.

The customer sent us specific artwork for the etching on the pen. We started by using a vector image, with that image we then set the YAG laser etcher on high power using 9 wats. To clean up the image we did a second pass over the pens using only 4 watts.

Laser engraved pens are a great way for any business to promote themselves. Pens are more exciting than a plain business card with your company information on it, not to mention you get more use out of a pen. Distribute the laser engraved pens to any potential customer and watch as your sales increase!

Laser etcher used in this project:
Type: YAG Fiber Laser
Brand: Cobalt
Model: 1000
Standard applications: Plate-making, pen engraving, knife engraving, tool engraving…
Unconventional applications: Up to you, just use caution…

More info: Cobalt 1000 Laser Etcher Page
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School is starting and so has the annual “madscramble” against the clock to get all the last minute school supplies! If you are a seller of school supplies and want your items to be unique and attractive, have the artwork printed by the PromoJet Solvent Inkjet Printer from Inkcups Now.

The PromoJet is a highly versatile inkjet printer which can print on many different sized shapes and substrates. By pre-treating the object or using different lay downs of ink it is possible to modify the outcome of the artwork depending on what material you print on.

In this case, all these items were pre-treated using only a heatgun. The ink that was used is a newly developed ink specially made for printing on plastic parts with the PromoJet.
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The Cobalt 1000 is an extremely powerful and versatile laser engraver and this is why we used it to etch this stainless steel serial tag.

The customer wanted the etched text to be as dark as possible. To do so we used the following settings on the laser: 100 speed, 10 power, .01 hatch and 3 Loops with a frequency of 35 KHz.

After focusing the laser to the plate we manually lowered the laser head in order to get that extra dark marking.
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Here you see one application of Cobalt 250 laser engraver. This compact machine, designed to make plates for pad printing, is also great for etching products like these colorful glass jars.

It is interesting to compare this - real - etching to a simulated one: Diamond Etch ink. The simulated etching is done with pad printing ink. Read more

Does this image not look laser engraved? Yet it is printed, with all its fine lines. Not only the ink looks great, you can save money with it!
Click on the image to view it closer.
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As always, ICN engineers are busy with several new projects… Among them is building a new machine – Cobalt laser engraver equipped with a belt conveyor. Here is the drawing…

We are going to bring the new machine to the upcoming SGIA show. This particular conveyor will be tailored to pen engraving. Read more

This is Diamond Etch ink again - the ink that imitates laser engraving or sand blasting. Yesterday Pete - ICN’s Ink Master - printed this logo on a glass jar (see one of the posts above). Today, he experimented with printing on clear plastic. Despite the glare on the photo, you can probably see how nice and crisp it came out. Click on the picture to view a bigger image.
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