Making Your Mark - Design Applications for Laser Engraving
Laser engravers can do wonders for a jewelry manufacturer’s hallmarking process, making it more efficient and leaving a crisp, clear mark of even the most detailed logo—but the benefits of laser marking and engraving technology don’t stop there. As the cost of laser marking equipment has come down in recent years and the degree of accuracy and versatility has increased, more jewelers have started looking at laser marking systems as more than just marking tools. Jewelry companies are putting their laser engravers to use as design tools, creating unique and personalized details that help set their jewelry apart.
Fable Designs, Talks about their Laser Engraving System
Fable Designs of West Jordan, Utah is the proud owner of a LaserStar laser engraving system. They are manufacturers of custom wedding bands in a wide variety of alternative metals, including black zirconium, titanium, tungsten, ceramic, and cobalt. Company vice president Kathi Bogenschutz says Fable’s business took off when it began specializing in customization. “More and more people are becoming aware that you can customize with laser engraving and let your imagination go wild.”
Retailers send Fable virtually any design they can dream up, and the manufacturer uses its LaserStar FiberStar Laser Marking System to provide the customer with a unique custom design. For example, one Father’s Day gift the company featured a child’s drawing of a cat with a mouse engraved on the top of a man’s ring. They've also been successful at adding fingerprints on both the inside and outside of rings using the FiberStar Laser Marking System. Today’s couple buying wedding rings might put one person’s fingerprint on one side of a ring and the other person’s fingerprint on the opposite side. In fact, Fable markets its ability to re-create fingerprints as an optional addition to its pink ceramic Susan G. Komen rings. The consumer can elect to have the fingerprint of a loved one who had breast cancer laser engraved on the inside of the ring.
To learn more about how to laser engrave rings, please follow the link to our Ring Laser Engraving article.
All of these options simply require the retailer to e-mail an image of the design they want laser engraved on the ring. Fable Design inputs the design into the computer, verifies that the image will work on the size of the jewelry chosen, and laser engraves the design. This is a simple process using the laser marking software provided with their laser emgravomg system. If there are any issues with the image working on the specified ring, they communicate with the retailer and adjust the design accordingly.
“We work with the customer to see how we can use their image,” says Bogenschutz. “Basically, anything that isn’t copyright-protected can be laser engraved on one of our pieces.”
Fable Designs Customer Testimonial
In this video taken at the JCK Show in Las Vegas, Kathi Bogenschutz, Vice President of Fable Designs, speaks with Todd Deslauriers Sr. Applications Engineer at the Fable Designs Booth at the show. In this video, Kathi discusses how her FiberStar laser marking system has helped improve their custom ring design business as well as laser marking on alternative metals.
Please read our article on Laser Engraving on Alternative Metals. In this article you can learn more about custom engraving on some of the alternative metals that Fable Design uses to produce their very popular line of custom rings.
For more information on the possibilities available with laser marking systems, please contact us today! We invite you to download our free product catalog and to view our informative and educational videos on LaserStarTV our new YouTube video channel. The world of laser marking is exciting and new innovations are being introduced every day. We would like to share that world with you.
This article was originally written by Shannon Brown of MJSA Journal. To read this article in it's entirety, please click here to link to the MJSA Journal website.
