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Anyone out there operating out of a typical commercial store front who has acquired a laser to add to services offered?Can't say we've had a lot of demand for this...but enough to get the mind wondering if a market could be developed.
-------------------- Tony Lucero Eagle Graphics Waterford, MI www.eaglegph.com Posts: 305 | From: Waterford, MI, USA | Registered: Apr 2000
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I looked at these for years at trade shows and finally added a universal vls 460 50 watt last year, it's been busy. My market is industrial, most work is electrical panel lamacoids, office nameplates, lockout padlocks. Spent Friday cutting room numbers out of 3mm acrylic, remembered to apply mounting film beforehand and they're ready to go, self adhesive, nice product.
Also use it for custom cut printed sintra tags, accurate registration is easy to achieve, i simply create an unprintable engraving layer when I create the file, and use that for cuts. I havent pursued commercial or retail market yet but its a very flexible machine and offers lots of possibilities.
I bought accessories, rotary holder and cutting table, also VersaLASER - 1 Touch Laser Photo Software for engraving photos ($300), you can prepare photo files in photopaint, but this is way easier and prepares photos based on media selected. Cut the jigs that hold 30 padlocks at a time out of 5mm acrylic with the laser, have engraved glass with excellent results, will be dabbling with wood and granite next.
The included driver software is very good, and works well with Corel. Typically we get data for industrial work in excel files and simply run a print merge in Corel using templates we've created for each type of tag, plate or lock... been bulletproof so far. It's nice that the engraving, cutting and drilling is accomplished in one step.
[ March 21, 2011, 07:51 AM: Message edited by: Mike O'Neill ]
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I have an epilog laser engraver- very pleased with the results!
-------------------- Catharine C. Kennedy CCK Graphics 1511 Route 28 Chatham Center, NY 12184 cck1620@taconic.net "Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now! I't's fun to have fun, But you have to know how!" Posts: 2173 | From: downtown Chatham Center, NY | Registered: Feb 2004
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