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There is number of machines that will do what you need. I would suggest you contact Engraving Concepts out of Arlington Tx, or Huston office. Very important for after sale support.
Here is a contact............
Engraving Concepts - HoustonJimmy DuBose
9001 Airport Boulevard (Hobby Airport)...
One thing you could do is go to RB Digital in Vancouver and get them to run you some samples of cutting and engraving with GCC X252.
Yes RB digital is another distributor of GCC along with Stahls and TG Graphics.
Yes that is true, glass tubes do not last long but are inexpensive to replace.
For cutting they are fine but engraving will be of lesser quality that western machines and nowhere as fast as Trotecs or Gravograph or even Epilog and ULS.
As Gene said best to go about buying Chinese machines is...
Just to clarify.....GCC LaserPro X252 is a glass tube water cooled unit.......Huge drop off from Trotec, Epilog, ULS laser systems.
GCC machines with Synrad tubes are priced in line with other western made machines.
Depending on your budget, western made laser in 12 x 24" bed size can be equipped with fume extractor as a base unit where laser sits on top of extractor.
Look into ULS or Epilog units with Bofa extractors.
Try to get the quote from thisre other shops:
MacFarlane Nameplates (Carlingview $ Dixon)
Stanley Manufacturing Company Inc. (East york)
Toronto Stamp (Scarborough)
Illustrator should have a postscript fill option like Corel where you can ad a fill to outlined text. Otherwise using single line fonts with correct cutter you can get wider cut line on larger text.
Mylar sheets will give you durability required for reusable stencil. It can be laser cut easily. Another product for making stencils out of is oilboard.
Most probable cause for bevel effect when cutting thicker materials is due to beam alignment. If the beam is not hitting lens dead on it will cut angled. It will not be noticeable on less than 3/16" material.
Does GCC glass tube laser work with DPI or scan gap? What are the settings for DPI if used? You may have to increase DPI or reduce scan gap. As mentioned go out of focus a bit to get larger burn spot.
Kern Laser i a quality product but it comes with high price tag.
There are Chinese fiber lasers for a 1/4" price of Kern and if one needs to engrave and cut there are machines like Trotec, ULS, Epilog that you can add to fiber laser and still be below 100K price tag.
With two machines you...
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