Q: Should the IM- IS Integrator Scribe marking system be dry cycled?
A: NO. Dry cycling of the IM-IS causes undo wear to the pin and pin housing. The pin actuates to the full length of the housing and breaks internal components.
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Columbia Marking Tools' patented Square ◙ Dot® scribe marking enables encoding data, such as 2D Matrix codes, onto hard materials at very high speed with Grade “A” readability, the highest standard rating, equivalent to 1,200 reads per second with no variations.
Customers purchasing programmable dot peen marking stations often ask what can be done to make programming a marking layout easier. The answer is simple, use the CAD data of the part as a background image Read more…
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