Process Date: July 2003

The electronics industry uses miniature surface-mount components extensively in the manufacture of circuit boards. This large (2.5 mm x 3 mm) ceramic capacitor was marked using an FH-Series marking head equipped with an 80 mm lens. Eight numeric stroke characters were marked on the face of the capacitor by the 116-micron diameter focused beam. Marking was accomplished in a cycle time of 0.35 seconds using nine watts of power at a velocity of nine IPS.

This 2.5mm x 3mm ceramic capacitor was marked using 9W of laser power at a speed of 9 IPS.