LaserMark

LightMachinery's' LaserMark 950 and 960 series lasers provide a fast, reliable means of applying high quality permanent marks such as date and batch codes to consumer product packages and electronic components. These pulsed CO2 lasers complete the entire marking process in less than 1 micro-second so marking can be done "on the fly" without mark smearing or degradation that can occur in other types of laser marking.

LaserMark lasers can mark on a wide variety of materials including inked paper and cards, foils, painted or anodized metal, glass and many types of plastic. The LaserMark series provides ease of operation, extreme reliability and high uptime, in production environments. Solid state SSM high voltage modulators and ultra-low gas flow ensure minimal consumable and maintenance costs. The LaserMark 960SSM series is sealed to NEMA 12 standards for general purpose applications. For more demanding operation the 950SSM series is NEMA 4 rated for direct high pressure hose down.

Download the LaserMark Datasheet and Installation Drawings

Excimer and CO2 Laser Applications Lab

A view inside the TEA CO2 Laser

Gelatin capsules turn almost white when marked with the LaserMark laser. The large marks are made with very consistent quality at speeds up to 30 per second.

Typical gelcap marking making system using a Hartnet Delta handling system. The overhead laser minimizes the amount of floor space required for the laser. No ink or clean up required

High Speed marking on beer bottle labels is an ideal application for the instant marks produced by the LaserMark laser

Epoxy coated capacitors develop high contrast marks when marked with the LaserMark laser.

Billions of transistors are marked every year using the LaserMark laser.

The foil on this nail polish bottle cap has been removed to reveal the base plastic. The LaserMark laser provides very sharp clear lettering required for this type of cosmetics application

Capacitors dipped in Hysol gold epoxy mark very easily with the LaserMark laser.

Ceramic chip capacitor marking, very small character sizes, high throughput, good contrast on most ceramics. Excimer marking is normally integrated into an automated test handler.

Laser marks inside bottle caps can produce vivid high contrast "sorry try again" messages at very high speed. "you just won 1,000,000" is also possible.

Plastic additives can dramatically alter the laser marking characteristics of plastic materials. Normally polyethylene cannot be marked with a LaserMark laser. This photo shows the appearance of polyethylene with the additive Afflair 120 after marking with a CO2 LaserMark system.

Red polystyrene is doped with Afflair 504 to produce a high contrast light mark on a dark background

This polyethylene sample uses Aflair 219 and produces a light mark on a dark background

All LightMachinery CO2 lasers are available in 10.6um and 9.3um output versions. Our Applications lab can help determine the best wavelength for your application. Shown here is an infrared spectrometer reading showing the 9.3um transition.

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Laser Applications

Check out our laser applications section for information about a wide variety of laser applications from wire stripping to pulsed laser deposition.

Marking

Marking has been a regular application for both the CO2 and excimer lasers for more than 30 years.