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Necessary Information
for Preparing Laser Samples
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It is important to give the vendors enough information so that they
can create the mark you want. Critical information for the
samples includes:
1. How much time is available for the mark?
This is a function of your throughput requirements – how many do
you produce in a day/hour/minute? Figure in how much time is
required by machine or human to present the piece for marking and
then reload the laser and subtract that time from your needed mark
time. Quality and speed tend to be inversely related, so if a
vendor thinks he has all day to make a good mark, and he does,
you’ll be disappointed when the production units don’t look as
good because they had to be marked in milliseconds.
Use the following formula to get the most efficiency from your laser
marker, and to provide the laser Application Engineers the right
amount of time for each mark.
Assumption: parts manufactured/second =
total seconds available for mark + handling
Therefore: Laser Mark time = total seconds
available/part – handling time
2. Do you have specific font requirements
for size and typeface?
Kevron laser markers use any True Type font that is
available to a PC. Please make it clear if you have an
absolute typeface requirement.
3. Do you have a graphic that needs to be
marked?
If you do, please try to supply the graphic in a .DXF format. This is the one most preferred by the laser vendors as .DXFs are
vectorized graphics while photos are bitmapped. Vectors work better.
If you are trying to mark a photo, that may be
possible in what amounts to a grayscale, but we have to know what
you want.
4. Can you supply an example of your
current mark?
Even if it’s not a laser mark an actual example of your current
mark will be very helpful. This helps the Application
Engineers get a better idea of how the layout actually works, etc.
5. Whenever possible supply an engineering
drawing showing how the mark is supposed to look.
6. If there is a machine-readable code or a
serial number can you supply the actual text string to be encoded?
In order to get an accurate example of a final product the
applications engineer needs to have the actual information to
mark. This determines the size of machine-readable codes and
helps assure your sample and your actual production will match.
7. Provide as much information about the
material/plating as this can be very helpful in generating a quality
mark.
8. Send plenty of blank samples for
testing.
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E-Mail
us at: info@all-marks.com
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All-Marks, LLC
~ 7513 Wystone Avenue ~ Reseda, CA ~
91335-2530
Phone 818.704.9700 / 800.784.5816 ~ Fax 818.342.7668 |
Copyright© All-Marks, LLC,
2006. All Rights Reserved.
Revised:
April 20, 2008 |
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