LMM-6018 is a laser marking tape designed for use on stainless steel, glass, ceramic, ceramic like and porcelain substrates. LMM-6018 can be applied to a substrate, laser marked to bond a portion of the tape to the substrate and then peeled away to leave the mark. LMM-6018 is designed for use in applications where spraying and removing our other laser marking materials is not possible or feasible. Rolls are available in 1”, 2”, 3” and 4” widths. They are 50 feet in length per roll, wound on a standard 3” core. Samples are available in 2” by 6” sheets.

A lot of people ask me what the coverage is for Thermark / Cermark. This is because the material is not cheap. But it does the job and it does it a lot cheaper than some other methods so I guess in the grand scheme of things it is rather inexpensive.

When it comes to formats for exchanging files one of the more common formats that we use is JPEGS. JPEGS are good because most people can create them, the file size is small and when you say JPEG to someone they know what you are talking about. The problem with JPEGs is that they are good for photos but not so good for logos or other so called line art type images. The big problem with JPEGS is that they typically save the files with Anti Aliasing on. … Continue Reading

A lot of times over the years I have been asked or needed to recreate an object that someone else has created. These objects could be logos or web graphics or legend plates. A lot times the image that I have been given needs to be redrawn as the original was not good enough. A lot of times having to redraw something is not the most desirable thing that I want to do. But to get the proper quality this has to be done. … Continue Reading

When customers give us text files it is not always in the best format. But the good thing is anytime we get the text we do not have to spell check which cuts down on errors. So I will always gladly take text. In this case I had a customer that got a work file from their customer. They did not know how to get it into CorelDraw so I did this lesson to show them how. There might be a better way and it was not as fast as if the text was formatted properly to be used in the print merge wizard but doing it this way meant that I did not have to spell check.

In our previous tutorial we looked at how to input guidelines more as margins for a product than using the Guidelines as tools for drawing, locating etc. In this tutorial we will spend time on

In this tutorial I had a customer ask me how to do an offset on a line of text that was .1 inches. This is easy to do in CorelDraw by using the contour command.

One of the ways to keep your objects lined up in CorelDraw is to use guidelines in your setup. In this article we will look at how to use guidelines. Guidelines are also usefully in aiding design in terms of we can have our drawing snap to a guideline. I like to use guidelines when I want to ends of a logo to line up. It is also good for checking the "tilt" on an object. This is a basic overview. For more tips see the advanced section.

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Here is a job one of my dealers asked us to do. This is not a hard job but he did not have a laser so we did the job for him. He emailed me the suggested setup from his customer. I also had to go to Brands of the World to import the lions logo for him. I had to copy the text paste it into CorelDraw, than format the text. The next step was to import in the lions logo than output the job to the laser so that I could engrave it onto acrylic.