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Stainless steel (bare)

also: tumblers, tags

Bare stainless is fiber territory. The disagreement sits with diode machines: two makers list diode marking on uncoated stainless and OMTech says it cannot be done.

Board

YES x2 two or more makers say yesNO x2 two or more say noMAKERS SPLIT makers contradict each other1 SOURCE one maker page only, not confirmedNO STATEMENT nothing publishedIF = yes only under a stated condition
Laser typeEngrave or markCut
Diode (blue, about 450 to 455 nm)MAKERS SPLITMAKERS SPLIT
CO2 (10,600 nm)NO x3NO x2
Fiber (1064 nm)YES x4YES x2 +1 IF

Run stainless steel through the matcher to add a cut thickness.

What each maker says

Diode, engrave or mark MAKERS SPLIT

Diode, cut MAKERS SPLIT

CO2, engrave or mark NO x3

CO2, cut NO x2

Fiber, engrave or mark YES x4

Fiber, cut YES x2 +1 IF

Published one-pass cut depth

Only figures a maker prints for this material. Thicker stock may need more passes; no page read gives a multi-pass figure.

MachineTypeMax one passSources
Creality Falcon2 Pro 40WDiode0.15 mmCreality Falcon, Jaspertronics (retailer)

Notes from the pages

Fumes

Every page read treats lasering as a fume source. Match your machine's exhaust figure to an extractor on the fume and room lookup.