Custom Business QR Code Stencil: Polycarbonate

A custom business QR code stencil from CNCROi.com can be customized however you want, from sizing to material choices.

For this specific stencil, we used thin 0.015″ polycarbonate, it’s incredibly durable, very easy to work with and most imporantly, flat.

Polycarbonate is optically clear, that’s why you don’t see the material very clearly when it’s being cut by the laser, other than the smoke generated during said process at CNCROi.com.

A custom business QR code stencil starts off with the customer sending me their generated code, we then find a good stenciled font to use and modify the code a little so big parts are more stuck together.

Lasers are really the best tool to cut our polycarbonate QR code stencils, very little material is removed so even very tight details come out fantastically.

There can be many different sizing and design styles for your QR code stencil, they all work though.

This custom business QR code stencil used many different elements, from straight lines to curved ones, filled squares to empty ones so each one needs to be carefully reviewed so that at the end of the day, the custom business QR code stencil produced actually works as intended.

There are a lot of little parts produced during the laser cutting process of custom business QR code stencils, you can see them flying around on the bed but I make sure I have enough power to cut a few layers of polycarbonate in one shot.

Having a powerful extraction system and compressed air shooting down from the head makes sure nothing catches on fire and the fumes are quickly removed before they can build-up to an unsafe volume.

The advantage of using a custom business QR code stencil is that one or a thousand “prints” costs the same, so the more you use it, the cheaper it becomes.

CNCROi.com is material agnostic, as a result, we can make these custom stencils and even stamps out of just about anything you need.

It’s hard to see due to the optical clarity of the polycarbonate stencil that actual cutting is being performed but that’s the nature of the material and process, it will go opaque once you put a few layers of paint on it.

Polycarbonate tends to hold onto heat as well, even at this minimal thickness, it does warp but will cool right back down once the laser is done cutting, the thicker the polycarbonate, the more heat distortion is possible, which is why we generally end-up using our CNC router for thicker variants, including custom business QR code stencils.

There is smoke generated during the laser cutting of the polycarbonate but it’s quickly sucked out of the machine before any damage to the electronics of the laser or up to a combustible level.

The major advantage of laser cutting a custom business QR code stencil rather than using our router is the tightness of the design mixed with the lack of pushing and pulling through the material, this combination means that even a 0.05″ border comes out fantasticaly.

The nice thing about a custom stencil is that it can be customized however you wish.

As a result, being able to just drop the sheet of polycarbonate on the laser bed without being limited by the bit diameter allows for sharp inner corners and overall, a tighter design.

Although this custom business QR code stencil is focused on QR codes, this process works with non-QR code stencils as well, any type of stencil you require, we can make it at CNCROi.com to spec.

When it comes to laser cutting custom business QR code stencil, keep in mind that these are stencils, meaning inner parts needs to be supported, ideally by bridges of material that are 1/8″ if not more.

CNCROi.com can make stencils out of metal and wood as well.

If you wanted paper stencils or wood stencils or even metal stencils, let us know what you want and we’ll make it for you at  CNCROi.com.

This stencil is looking great so far, any mix of graphics and fonts work great, as long as material is supported throughout the custom business QR code stencil.

The advantage of this process is repeatability, meaning that if you wanted one or a thousand stencils, we can make them all the same or as different as you wish at CNCROi.com.

It’s quite a contrast having a stencil made using metal verses polycarbonate.

This stencil is looking great, once the waste material is removed, you can see just how tight this custom business QR code stencil design is.

Need a custom business QR code stencil? Contact CNCROi.com right now!