Lasering Glass Awards

[Mark Sipes]

I've been lasering glass and acrylic awards for the past 10 years and have always placed the image on the front side for Glass and the back side for Acrylic. I have not seen or read any right or wrong way to do either. I have had both types of awards brought into my shop to be repaired and have seen every variant. Your thoughts??

[Joe Pelonio]

Normally i have done the front on both, but at times have don front and back for a more 3d effect.

[Frank Corker]

I'm with Joe, done both ways. I tend to engrave glass from the front, acrylic from the back.

[Liesl Dexheimer]

Never thought of engraving both front & back. How do you get the artwork to line up correctly? I imagine it would be much harder on an non rectangular or square object.


Normally i have done the front on both, but at times have don front and back for a more 3d effect.

[Martin Boekers]

Never thought of engraving both front & back. How do you get the artwork to line up correctly? I imagine it would be much harder on an non rectangular or square object.


I do front and back on the same pieces. I just create a second page in the same file, then reverse
the page that has it on the backside. (delete the parts on each page you don't need) I flip the
piece and print the second page. I only do this on rectangle shape pieces. They are to hard too line it up.

I engrave single side on bothe glass and acrylic on the back, seems to disperse light better.

[Braden Todd]

For glass I tend to go on the back, but I also sandblast the glass 99.9% of the time because of the depth/dimension it gives you.