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For over a decade, Inkcups has continued to raise the bar for lasers in the plate-making industry. Inkcups takes pride in developing the laser plate-maker process and continuing to enhance the experience for their customers. Inkcups is the pioneer of laser plate etching machines. Be it a CO2, YAG or Fiber laser plate-maker, Inkcups’ solutions appeal to

Inkcups Now, Corp. (Danvers, MA) is featuring groundbreaking pad printing and inkjet technology at the 2017 PPAI Expo in Las Vegas, NV January 10-12. Located at booth #6955, Inkcups will show numerous machine demonstrations and will have our expert team available for any questions. Don’t miss out! This years’ line-up of state-of-the-art industrial printers include:

Inkcups Now is happy to introduce the MegaLAZE pad printing laser plate material. Formerly known as Ultra Plates from Markem, these high-performance aluminum-backed plates are a great addition to Inkcups Now’s laser plate line. Markem has recently discontinued the laser plate material and Inkcups Now saw a great opportunity in adopting the new material. The MegaLAZE

Inkcups introduces CrystaLAZE laser pad printing plates! These groundbreaking laser engravable plates are different from the usual CO2 laser plates on the market today. Most CO2 plates out there are simply pre-hardened polymer plates whereas the CrystaLAZE plates are designed specifically for CO2 laser engravers. The surface is compatible with the CO2 wavelength enabling the

The Cobalt1000 fiber laser is an excellent piece of machinery. It is capable of etching very fine detailed images of hard materials such as steel. This versatile laser etcher can easily accommodate custom machine fixtures, similar to the one shown in the video. In this video a custom nameplate fixture is placed into the laser

Inkcups Now’s Cobalt 1000 laser etching machine is a serious piece of machinery. It is important to understand what this machine can do and if you are ready to own one before you make a purchase. Follow these three easy steps to better understand if you will benefit from a Cobalt 1000. The first step

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

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

Here you see one application of Cobalt 250 laser engraver: laser etched glass. 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

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. But the belt