Process Date: April 2004

Combine SYNRAD’s success in laser marking commercial, automotive, and residential glass products the past several years with the need to add inventory and batch control traceability to consumer products and the result is this bottle marking application.

 A SYNRAD sealed CO₂ laser, FH Series marking head, and WinMark Pro laser marking software provide the ability to mark text and even graphics on glass bottles or containers. WinMark Pro allows the user to mark the same batch or lot number on a specific number of bottles, to serialize individual bottles or batches, or to mark specific information sent from a host computer or server.

This 14-character text object marked in a cycle time of 0.21 seconds. Mark Velocity was set to 19.6 inches per second with 22 watts of Power at a Resolution of 750. We used WinMark Pro’s built-in Simple stroke font with a Text Height of 0.125 inches. Spot size of the 125 mm focusing lens is 180 microns (0.007”) with a 3 mm (0.118”) depth of focus. In a continuous motion application with an FH Tracker marking head, line speeds up to a maximum of 95 ft/min (29.1 m/min) are possible.