The various engraving tools that can be attached to marking machinery are a vital aspect in the mechanical process of engraving. Without the plethora of sizes available for engraving bits, as they are commonly known, all engraving would end up looking the same. For precision marking, a technique that is utilized for many applications and Continue reading
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How to Buy Laser Etching Equipment
Who buys laser etching equipment? This type of marking machinery is utilized in a variety of manufacturing facilities, such as metal and plastic fabrication and jewelry making, as well as aerospace and telecommunications industries. Any company that needs to mark their products without piercing all of the way through them and Continue reading
The Metal Engraver and the Jewelry Industry
Every industry has its “go to” tool that never fails to serve the manufacturer using it well. In the jewelry industry, that tool would have to be the metal engraver. Available in both a hand-held model for homemade jewelry as well as incorporated into machinery that mass produces metallic accessories, metal engravers are a special type of marking machinery. Able to engrave a metal surface with words or Continue reading
How to Design a Roll Marking Machine
Roll marking is a very specific style of marking machinery that looks distinctly different from any other piece of machinery in the category, because of the large rollers that do the marking and must be set up at just the right angles. All machines must be very carefully engineered, whether they are for Continue reading
Marking Tools: Equipment Variety
If a product needs to be etched, printed or engraved then a marking tool is used to accomplish the task. Marking tools may refer to the equipment used to mark materials or it is a phrase that may refer to the actual tools attached to the equipment that make the various types of permanent marks. Either way, marking tools obviously play a major role in the marking machinery industry. Continue reading
Etching Machines: From One Generation to Another
Artistic traditions still abound in our technological age, although sometimes the media and/or the tool used to create the art changes. For example, etching is a form of decoration that has been around for over five hundred years. Originally this was a form of creation that involved pieces of metal that had been Continue reading
Marking Machinery for the Medical Field
Because a hospital is concerned with two major things, saving lives and doing it in as sanitary a fashion as possible, it is one of the most difficult markets to make products for. The pressure is one when it comes to the manufacturing of surgical tools. Also, because of the craziness of the hospital environment, all of the tools that Continue reading
Product Identification for Various Industries

Marking Machinery Photo Courtesy of Elmark Packaging, Inc.
In our culture of mass production, product identification has become necessary for tracking purposes as well as other organizational reasons. Some industries require this process and the marking machines that implement the ids more than others. In general, any manufacturing company practices product identification to track their products, organizing where and Continue reading
Numbering Machines: The Golden Ticket

Marking Machinery Photo Courtesy of Sprinter Marking, Inc.
If you are a fan of the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, then you know exactly what a golden ticket is. As a kid I thought they were the prettiest tickets I had ever seen, with a script imprinted into the gold material that looked elegant and magical. Now I know that those tickets were probably designed by some marking machinery system that Continue reading