Thanks for your question. Power is 100% (75w) and speed 600mm/s. With this product it's important to understand multiple passes give a cleaner mark rather than less passes at a slower speed.

@@Lotuslaser thank you appreciate it

The settings that we used will unlikely work for you. Even if you had identical hardware, each machine requires finely tuned parameters. Red is one of the most difficult colours to achieve. We help you find these settings during the support process.

@@Lotuslaseryeah I can’t seem to get the color red only darker reds

Not with this machine. It is designed to mark in tiled areas. For halftone marking over large areas you need DFGL technology like our MetaD, which as standard can mark 800x800 but to special order can mark up to 1.2x1.2m. MetaD will mark halftone images perfectly at this size and in very fast speeds, much faster than any plotter type laser machine. Please contact us via our web site if you have further queries about MetaD

Hello, this is the Meta-C UV from Lotus Laser. Please get in touch and one of our team members will be happy to help with your request. Phone: +44 (0)1268 567540 Email: [email protected] Thank you.

Parameters will be specific to your system configuration. For Borosilicate you need use the max peak power your laser is capable of and the speed is slower than for regular glass too.

The machine in this video is our model Meta-C, which is our highest performing fiber laser marking workstation, however, any of our MOPA systems can produce this result like nMeta or uMeta. You do not need the bigger Meta-C. Please contact our sales department for pricing

We no longer have the file used to make this video. the font is a version of Script but I am sorry, we do not recall exactly which version was used

The settings we use will not be relevant to your machine. It varies between the systems we build even if they are of identical configuration. In other words, to repeat colour replication consistently the actual settings are specific to one machine. The margin for error is extremely small and takes time to to achieve. We cover how to do this during our 1-1 training sessions

@@Lotuslaser that's a pretty bad cop out You can share your settings to give a baseline and I can work on it from there That line is used widely by people not willing to help in the fiber laser community yet in reality sharing your settings I bet I could replicate the results in the matter of a hour or two at most it may need slight tweaking but would get me in the ball park Thanks anyway but I wouldn't spend money on a company that isn't willing to help others, you could very easily share your test file or even share your settings to help others in the community.

Yes. Full details are in the video notes section.

how many passes?

Please contact our sales dept via our web site for system configuration options and pricing

Thanks for your enquiry. This system is using a DC laser. A good result like this depends on a combination of all of the following: a high quality and well tuned laser + a near perfectly assembled motion control + expert set-up and configuration. You need a decent halftone image too. If the laser is not good you will see inconsistent shapes to the halftone and variations in shade that should not be there - in particular at the edges of the image. If you have visible banding this is usually a problem with the motion system. If your hardware and laser are set-up well and you still get bad results then it'll be bad software configuration. Note also that with a DC laser speed is relative to quality i.e. faster = lower quality

@@Lotuslaser Thanks for your answer, but I was talking about not engraving the wood (but really marking, etching it), looks like there's no depth at all, that's what I want to obtain.

@@trush270b That's just a question of power; turn it down

Fiber is not good for cutting leather. Usually a CO2 laser is used but with CO2 there is a lot of heat damage. UV creates a much cleaner cut with far superior detail, however, it's only good for the scan area of the lens (150mm) so UV is definitely the way to go if you want to cut small sized, high quality, high detail parts

The settings that we use will be specific to our system config. Basically, you need high speed (approx 1.5m/s), low PRF like 5kHz and low power - start with the lowest power that you laser can deliver with stability and adjust upwards. If this is your core app then you'll get a much better result using a UV (355nm) laser

We have a number of different configurations of this model. Please connect with our sales team for more information www.lotuslaser.com/contact/

The parameters are only relative if you have our equipment so our parameters will not be useful to you

Please connect with our sales team via this contact form www.lotuslaser.com/contact/

Marking PU is relatively safe, however, an effective form of extraction is essential. If this is your core application you should take a look at our UV laser marking machine. as it produces a far superior result compared to the CO2 laser that we have shown in this video here.

Sorry for the late reply. We were on holiday. yes, this plate is customised specifically to cater for the customer products

sorry for the late reply. I was on holiday. In this video we used a 30w MOPA fiber laser

Excelent work but how you do that?

@@equizx1 it requires very high quality laser, optical and focus components + a lot of know-how. This is part of the Lotus advantage as we can deliver all of these things

Hello Kai. You should connect with our support department. They can help you solve your problem in minutes. Not months. When you contact us please have your system serial number ready.

@@deanlaserite could you give me a contact adress please ?

sorry have find it at your website - thank you

@@deanlaserite sorry again my email to your support adress comes back as non deliverable could you please contact me by email ?

@@kaischaffarczyk6499 the email is [email protected] If you have email problems then there is also a contact form on our web site that you can use to connect with us

I don’t understand your question but if you contact us via our website we’d be happy to give advice

Our UK manufactured MOPA fiber laser systems are available in a range of formats and accessory options and start at £15k approx. For more details please contact our sales team via our web site

We have a number of systems that can produce this. Please contact us via our web site and one of the team will provide further details. Thanks for watching

There are several configurations that influence the price. Please connect with [email protected]

please connect with our sales team via the contact links at our web site

please email your requirements to [email protected]

more power is not an advantage for this application. The specification of the laser is more important

Hi Ross, yes, for nucleation there is no need to use a UV laser. An advantage of the CO2 for nucleation is the size of the spot. Normally, it's the opposite i.e. the bigger spot is a disadvantage. But you can nucleate the glass with a UV. If you only want to nucleate glass I'd say go for a CO2. If you want to engrave and nucleate then go UV.

@@Lotuslaser Thanks for that. I'm looking into starting an amazon business. Think you may be out of my budget but I'd still like to speak further. Should I email you via the sale contact?

@@rosseasson9441 Budget Ross is relative to functionality, performance and reliablity. We are far from the most expensive out there but we do claim to have the best all-round package in many formats; most especially the UV. With UV you also need to be super careful re safety. Most of the low cost imports you'll see are great for taking eyes out and they are next best for costing more in lost productivity and opportunity. Please contact us via our web form and one of the guys will run you through what's available.

@@Lotuslaser fantastic thanks for your time.

Link and price of the specific machine for engraving glass ?

depth relates to the intensity (power, spot size, etc) and the exposure time ; it's controllable and with UV you can achieve similar depths to that of other wavelengths but with higher quality. The trade-off is the time as a UV will be slower than a CO2. You can pass multiple times to achieve the depth but generally a single pass at a slower speed is often a better technique

In most cases we would recommend to use a 60w fiber laser for this application, however, the purpose of this video was to show that in some cases a CO2 laser at 10.6µm can be used if the product is suitable in terms of material make-up. So to answer your question; this video shows a CO2 laser marking the mug.

This is an impossible question to answer accurately unless we know the precise configuration of your machine. A MOPA laser will produce a superior result without foaming. Generally speaking you want to use a speed of 2m/s, low pulse width (high peak power - low pulse energy) matched with the relevant PRFO frequency (kHz). Hatch depends on the lens being used but if you have F254 start by trying 0.05mm and if the laser is 20w adjust power upwards in increments from 60% to get darker

@@Lotuslaser Thank you, this helps! I am running a ULS 30 watt Fiber laser with a 2.0" or 4.0" lens

@@caleydeannbrunner85 That is not an ideal format for this process. To achieve this effect it's much better to use a galvo laser (MOPA) with an F254 lens. Do you know the laser source? Maybe it is Q-switched? You will need to go very slow like 200mm/s or equivalent, maximum DPI (I think 1,000 for ULS?), I would say use the 2" lens but go out of focus by about 1mm (into the material). Keep focusing in by 0.5mm each time and you should notice it getting darker

The pulse of the laser causes a structural reaction within the material that produces a permanent and contrasting mark. This is not a print process. When the material absorbs the laser, minor ablation + colour changing is the outcome.

@@Lotuslaser So the plastic is originally moulded in black colour right ?

@@TusharMahajan77 Correct, the plastic is moulded black

There are a number of different configurations that affect the price. Please contact [email protected] for more details

All lasers have a fixed wavelength Gary. What we change is the pulse width (ns)the pulse frequency (kHz), the average power (%watts), the hatch density (mm) and sometimes also the hatch angle. We are using one set of parameters to remove the very thick powder coating and another to clean and brighten the exposed stainless steel for a better aesthetic. See some if our other video where we use even more variations in the same file to create colours. This is the benefit of using high performance laser tech instead of basic laser tech

@@deanlaserite thank you for that. I watched the bottle one yesterday and couldn't believe how there was 5 or 6 different colours and it was done so quickly. I'm guessing it would take a while to learn the basics of the software to do similar products

@@garybeaumont543 This isn't really a software only based solution. Firstly, you have to start-out with equipment that's capable of delivering the end result in terms of effect and process time. Not all systems are equal despite what many will claim. Next, the level of support varies massively from one supplier to another. Many will give you just a set of params to plug in to software but these very rarely will work for the more technically challenging apps out there and colour changing s/steel is one of the hardest of all. That's where we come in with a 1-2-1 support resource based on 1st hand experience (know-how). In short, our offering (hardware and support) allows the user to crack on and earn money rather than waste time stabbing in the dark to get what are at best mediocre end results. We have full-time staff here dedicated to apps support. This is why most of our KZfaq video are apps related.

@@Lotuslaser that's great to know, reasons why I've been googling your company and watching your youtube vlogs. I'm in the uk and would rather put my pounds into a uk company. Thank you for the info and help

Dont be fooled the shadows proof the result is enhanced in video editing. Engravings have inner shadows not external