Whether stamping a serial number or adding your own personal touchmark, many different types of marking tools are available to meet any direct part marking requirement.
Whether stamping a serial number or adding your own personal touchmark, many different types of marking tools are available to meet any direct part marking requirement.
Topics: Marking Tools and Supplies
Permanent marking on metal, whether stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, brass, or copper, presents a couple of unique challenges but can be accomplished in a number of ways.
Topics: Direct Part Marking, Metal Fabrication, Marking Machines
Custom hand stamps, as an affordable and long-lasting customization tool, have a long history of allowing makers from a huge variety of industries to make their mark.
Over the years, we’ve helped many companies, artisans, and makers customize hand stamps so that they can make the mark they want in the place they want to make it.
We thought it might be nice to show off some of these talented people and their amazing work.
Topics: Craftsman and Artisan, Hand Stamps, Hand Held Marking Tools
If you're looking to personalize your product by adding your name, monogram, or company logo, hot stamping is a tried and true direct part marking method.
Topics: Hot Stamping, Hot Stamping Type and Dies, Craftsman and Artisan, Hot Stamping Foils and Ribbons
A common handheld marking tool is an automatic spring-loaded center punch. This hand tool is used to produce a dimple, characters, or small symbols in a workpiece made of metal, wood, or even some plastics.
Topics: Center Punch
Durable Technologies' pneumatic impact presses are simple to set up, easy to operate, and offer excellent repeatability. They provide significant advantages in terms of control, safety, and reliability, and are low maintenance.
Pneumatic presses are best suited for higher-volume marking requirements. Your pneumatic press can be operated automatically using hand controls or manually by pulling the lever.
Topics: Direct Part Marking, Impact Presses, Pneumatic Press
Vintage Editions is a specialty wood manufacturing company located in the foothills of North Carolina. They produce a variety of boxes, beer cases, trunks, cupboards, picture frames, fishing rod racks, chalkboards, benches, wine racks, tables, chairs, desks, and wooden bars.
Using sublimated artwork and embossed printing, they customize numerous promotional and personal items. Licensed products exhibiting Winchester and Remington logos are particularly popular. Military, fishing and other outdoor themes are also favorites.
Topics: Hot Stamping, Hot Stamping Type and Dies, Wood, Magnesium Dies, Testimonial
Metal stamps made to order open up the world of customization for artisans and craftspeople who want to add their personal touch, leave their permanent signature, and customize their finished pieces. Designing your own metal stamp can seem like a daunting process, however, so we have made it easy!
Topics: Custom Steel Hand Stamps
Direct part marking food packaging often requires that the marking components have specific properties. Ink for food packaging, specifically, needs to meet a few key criteria. To understand what to look for in food packaging marking solutions, it is necessary to look at why we mark food packaging and the unique challenges inherent in this type of packaging.
Topics: Food and Beverage, Ink Jet Fluids
Hot stamping or foil stamping is a printing method where metal hot stamp dies are transferred at high temperatures to the surface being marked.
The process includes a hot stamping machine (or hot stamping press) and steel, brass, or magnesium type (interchangeable characters) or a solid logo die. Adding a hot stamping foil delivers a mark with color.
Topics: Hot Stamping, Hot Stamping Type and Dies