Direct Metal Marking

[Bill Cunningham]

Yup agree 100% Rodney.. There is not enough money or flexablity available in putting out the bucks for a machine specifically for marking metal. The fibermark from epilog seems like a nice machine, but the only people I have seen buying it as yet, are industrial users that need it to mark 'their' products and parts, and their not usually interested in doing outside work.. I think I lucked out on this tube replacement, and the tube was the only thing replaced.. Had to do a very minor tweak on the alignment, and replaced one mirror. I was told the tube Epilog sent, was the correct one, matched to their records for the Ser# of machine I have.. These tags I'm marking have a very small area, (.25" x 1") so even at a speed of 2-3% @ 600 dpi for extra overlap and 'burn in', they still go pretty quick if their set up in vertical columns to keep down the head travel..

[Steve Clarkson]

concentrate on real high profit jobs like fabricating point of sale items and so forth.

Rodney, when you say "fabricating point of sale items"......can you give me some idea of specific things you do? I'm still trying to research and identify my niche products. Thanks.

[Mike Null]

Steve

google point of sale displays and you'll get some idea. At least one of our members is in this business. think about all the acrylic items you see when you go into a bank, dept store or grocery.

http://www.displays2go.com/

[Steve Clarkson]

Thanks Mike.....yea, even if fabricating point of sale items is a high profit business...that's definiitely not for me!