Quelle: LasX

Paper

The laser has inherent advantages over traditional cutting technologies such as punching and the roller knife whenever cutting geometries are not straight, or are variable, and whenever the hardness of the material to be cut would cause heavy wear on tools.

Examples in which paper, foil or labels are already being cut in series by lasers today, are adhesive labels, variably designed present cards or prototypes in moderate quantities.

As a rule, because of the nature of the process, a CO2 laser with high beam quality is used for these. Attaching the laser to a galvanometer-driven deflector head enables both high flexibility and a high process speed of more than 2000 mm per second to be achieved. In addition, the quality of cut is, as a rule, considerably better than with mechanical singling.

A special control technology also allows cutting on the fly, that is, the strip material can be processed in-line without interrupting the speed.
The lasers used are fast modulating, so micro-perforation can be carried out as well as continuous cutting.