STYLECNC help you choose a right CO2 laser engraving and cutting machine

In this article, we will provide a brief overview of the CO2 laser cutting and engraving machine's main technical characteristics.

Purchasing of a laser machine should be careful and conscious. Failed investment in wrong equipment may adversely affect the successful development of your business.

In general, we set goals as below:

1.To raise the customers’ level of knowledge and requirements of choosing the laser equipment.

2.To reveal the design features of some CO2 laser engraving machines, which are mostly hidden by sellers.

3.To increase general level of laser culture among laser machines users.

4.Guide to buy a high quality CO2 laser cutting and engraving machine.

CO2 laser engraving and cutting machine

The working principle of CO2 laser engraving and cutting machine.

CO2 laser engraving and cutting machine generates laser beam by laser tube. Through three mirrors and a focusing lens, the laser is finally focused on the material and two movable axes position the laser beam on the workpiece. The surface of the material is subject to strong thermal energy and the temperature increases rapidly. This point rapidly melts or vaporizes due to high temperature, and the laser trajectory is used to achieve the purpose of processing.

Before you purchase, there are several items you have to confirm:

First , learn about what material you wants to process by the CO2 laser machine. Nonmetal material usually requires CO2 laser machine, but metal sheet cutting work requires fiberglass laser cutting machine.

Second, Select the appropriate machine working size according to the size of the product to be processed. However, it should be noted that the large working size of the machine is not necessarily good.Because machines with large working sizes are expensive, while some machines with poor quality have unstable laser output at various points on large-format surfaces, resulting in different shades of engraving products on the same table, so choosing the right working size is very important.

Third, check the type of work you want to use the CO2 laser machine for. If you process column material, such as glass cup, bottles, bamboo, egg, you have to requires the machine fits rotary device( rotary attachment) and moving table. The rotary devices are different for holding bottles and egg, so do remember list what type of work you do. Laser machines are designed for different applications, such as fabrics CO2 laser cutting machine, marble CO2 laser engraving machine, sign CO2 laser engraving machine, even label CO2 laser cutting etc. Fabrics CO2 laser cutting machine requires special working table and support to hold Fabrics rollers, marble processing requires rolling table for lifting and moving easily, label cutting requires a scanner which could scan the edge of label to guide the laser head to cut. If this is something you want to invest in, buy a machine that can do that.

Fourth, check laser tube power you want. Wood cutting and paper cutting requires different laser tube power, cutting thickness also requires different power, so this is the important element you should consider too.

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