Hello All,
I've had my fiber laser now for about a month. Been able to find some good info on marking metals and pretty happy with the results so far. What I'm struggling with is the plastics. I was given one basic setting form the laser mfg, Maxphotonics and it works with some materials but definitely not all. See attached photos.
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These are both Screwdrivers from same mfg, the handles are the same material just one is orange the other red. From the photos it is hard to see but the red looks nice and dark, while the mark on the orange one is grey and faint. Marks were made with 20w Fiber/f=160 lens and parameters as follows:
Speed:2000, Power:25, Freq: 60kHz, Pulse Width:50
Fill: Double Line w/.01 @ 90/180
Is this normal? I could see an issue if one was a black handle and the other red, but from red to orange?
Not quite sure how to go about tweaking the settings to get a darker mark, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Daz