Paul Phillips
11-06-2007, 7:40 PM
I'm a new member and I really am impressed with the quality of people in this community as well as the quality of information, what a gold mine.
I am looking to purchase a new laser and have already spent many hours this last week reading through the archives. I've learned more in the last several days reading archives here than anywhere else I've found. I wish I had found this years ago!
I run the routing/engraving department for a growing sign co. and we are looking to increase our productivity in ADA signs by complimenting our current method of routing shapes on the CNC machine and transferring them to the engraver for braille and tactile letters. I run two Multicam M series CNC routers and a New Hermes IS8000 rotary engraver with an auto raster attachment which works great for creating braille but, the struggle for me has been to get clean consistent results with the gravotac/rowmark .032 engravers plastic with adhesive on the back. Problems with adhesive residue around the edges of the letters, problems with adhesive sticking to substrate after weeding off waste material, etc., etc.
I would like to use a large format laser (at least .24"x48" table) to cut custom shapes out of sheets of .5 acrylic and corian with gravotac/rowmark letters on top and then transfer them to the engraver for braille. I am looking at a ULS ILS12.150D, a GCC Explorer or Gaia and a Trotec speedy 500. I want to do high production speed and large quantities but I find the table sizes to be a limiting factor for me so one of the options I am also considering is the Multicam 2000 series with a 50”x100” table and either a 200w or 400w Synrad laser.
http://www.multicam.com/eng/Products/lasers.html
Does anyone here have any experience with one of these? I can’t seem to find any info about them except on the Multicam website. Unfortunately there are no demos close by for me to see. They seem to be a rare item and I would really like to know how well they work before I spend $150k.
Thanks for sharing all of your valuable comments and info.
Paul Phillips
I am looking to purchase a new laser and have already spent many hours this last week reading through the archives. I've learned more in the last several days reading archives here than anywhere else I've found. I wish I had found this years ago!
I run the routing/engraving department for a growing sign co. and we are looking to increase our productivity in ADA signs by complimenting our current method of routing shapes on the CNC machine and transferring them to the engraver for braille and tactile letters. I run two Multicam M series CNC routers and a New Hermes IS8000 rotary engraver with an auto raster attachment which works great for creating braille but, the struggle for me has been to get clean consistent results with the gravotac/rowmark .032 engravers plastic with adhesive on the back. Problems with adhesive residue around the edges of the letters, problems with adhesive sticking to substrate after weeding off waste material, etc., etc.
I would like to use a large format laser (at least .24"x48" table) to cut custom shapes out of sheets of .5 acrylic and corian with gravotac/rowmark letters on top and then transfer them to the engraver for braille. I am looking at a ULS ILS12.150D, a GCC Explorer or Gaia and a Trotec speedy 500. I want to do high production speed and large quantities but I find the table sizes to be a limiting factor for me so one of the options I am also considering is the Multicam 2000 series with a 50”x100” table and either a 200w or 400w Synrad laser.
http://www.multicam.com/eng/Products/lasers.html
Does anyone here have any experience with one of these? I can’t seem to find any info about them except on the Multicam website. Unfortunately there are no demos close by for me to see. They seem to be a rare item and I would really like to know how well they work before I spend $150k.
Thanks for sharing all of your valuable comments and info.
Paul Phillips