Laser Annealing 304 Stainless Steel Business Card
One of the many programs here have here at CNCROi.com is giving away 304 Stainless Steel business cards to our elite customers – the ones who work extra hard to give us as many purchase orders as possible or go out of their way to help us on a project! Of course, we can’t make this information public each time it happens with the customer’s business card we make for them (we give them their card in SS in addition to ours) so here is another video of mine being made.
The annealing of stainless steel is always a magical process as nothing is ever touching the steel blank – one second you have nothing, the next, you have a rich black PERMANENT marking.
Got to love it – this process just never gets boring! Watch the process yourself in the video below and I hope you notice a very important thing missing. Cermark, a ceramic paste that people with CO2 ONLY lasers must use in order to bake on “black” text onto metal, this is because we have a Trotec Speedy 400 flexx with both a CO2 and Fiber laser source, we get to skip that step.
This saves us and the customer money and us a lot of time. The quality of the annealing process is better without using this ceramic paste as it’s viewable at deeper angles, we have a lot more flexibility application wise such as extremely small part numbers and there isn’t a need for a secondary cleaning process.
Look forward to making many more of these cards for our elite customers – keep the purchase orders flowing!
