Jimani Laser Marking Blog

Apollo Plastics manufactures back lit buttons and displays for the automotive industry.  They use fiber laser markers to burn away a top coat of dark paint to expose a layer of light colored paint which, when back lit, glows for easy identification.  Most of the instrument buttons and knobs in your car use this type of technology.

Generally speaking, there are two flavors of laser marking systems: Steered Beam and Flying Optics. Steered beam systems have a stationary focusing lens and mirrors above the lens move the laser beam in the X and Y axes to mark images in a plane at the focal distance of the lens.

Prolase 7 Plus, American Laserware’s newest laser marking software release, has just added distortion correction and rotary marking tiling features.

Laser marking on rounded objects (rotary marking), such as pens or other cylindrical shaped objects, has always presented challenges to the laser marking community. Unless the part is rotated under the marking field, the size of the mark, whether it is text or logos, is limited by two factors:

American Laserware has released the latest version of Prolase 7. In addition to fixing a few bugs that were lurking in Prolase 7, the newest version takes advantage of more features available in the Winline Printer Driver that is available to all users who purchased Prolase 7.

I don't know every detail about every laser marking software package but I do know enough to say with confidence that they all work. Laser marking systems sales is a competitive business with a sophisticated customer base. Laser marker owners and prospective buyers are always comparing software features and it becomes pretty easy to know which features are available in which package.

About 6 weeks ago while driving to work, I decided to do something that had been on my mind for a while: buy a portable generator for emergency purposes since we live in earthquake prone Southern CA. A local hardware store had a reasonably priced 6800 watt portable generator that I liked so I bought it.

Question recently posed through our website:

Cinematography Electronics manufacturers precision motion picture equipment.  Their president Larry Barton had some nice things to say about Jimani Engraving.
 
"I am a stickler for details, so choosing a laser engraver for our high end products was not an easy decision to make.

OXNARD, California – February 21, 2011. Jimani Inc. introduces the Desktop Langolier, a versatile, turnkey solution for laser marking in both industrial and non-industrial settings. The company has leveraged over 20 years experience in the laser marking industry to develop the new desktop fiber laser marker for clients preferring to do their engraving in-house.  The Langolier Desktop is ideal for companies that want to manually load small items like tags, nameplates, tooling, and other small parts.