Photos and Laser Etching Black Anodized Aluminum
Although photo image marking doesn’t constitute much, if any, of our job shop marking business, I wanted to understand a bit about it so I decided to do some playing around.
Laser Marking Glass Bottle Saves Man’s Job
One of Jimani’s regular job shop engraving customers showed up today with a problem. He had 2 bottles of expensive whiskey meant as gifts to his boss. The bottles had a laser engraved design on them. We didn’t know where they came from. Well, he apparently dropped one of the bottles. It broke and he was reluctant to tell his boss so he decided to just buy a new bottle to replace the broken one. The new bottle that he bought did not have the laser engraved logo on the back. He came over and asked if we could help him out. He had found some artwork on the Internet that was close to the logo on the bottle. We modified the art and marked the bottle on our CO2. Our engraving is on the right and the original is on the left. We don’t think that his boss will know the difference.
Laser Etching Glass
Laser Etching Glass produces a frosted direct part mark on a traditionally difficult to mark material. Most laser etching glass processes produce a flaking or chipping off of glass shards with choppy and uneven edges. Jimani is developing a process that yields superior edge quality with no flaking or chipping of the glass surface.