What are the typical applications of laser engraving?

Posted by John Smith on May 29th, 2019

Among the different applications that laser engraving has, the one that is more popular today is in promotional aspects. It has become a very good marketing tool to customize all types of objects with the logo, corporate name or proper name for advertising purposes.

What are the advantages of laser engraving?

Laser engraving has many advantages compared to other techniques of engraving or personalization of products. This type of engraving is a universal tool that is applicable to a wide variety of materials. This gives it a great advantage against more traditional techniques since it does not require the acquisition of specific tools for each of the materials with which it can work.

This technique to record supposes a saving of money in the long term. One of the important aspects is that the laser itself of the machine engraving has long durability.


In addition to record on pieces, used to use some type of fasteners so that the piece did not move during the process, and this could cause damage to the material used, in addition to the time lost by adjusting everything.

For this reason, laser engraving is a technology that does not require contact, is avoided this wear, not only the material but also tools such as blades or drills that would be used in another type of method of recording in pieces.

The recording by laser does not require either a long practice or experience as can be assumed in other types of crafts. It requires, of course, a basic knowledge of computer science to be able to work efficiently. In addition, lasers record their designs with great precision in the pieces and can reach a very high degree of detail.

It also has a high degree of configurability, offering us the possibility of recording using different types of sources and whose result is much more comprehensible.