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Do you know that you can use Co2 laser cutter to cut fabric materials, including patches, labels, and appliques?
Yes, laser cutters are very versatile, which is why many textile companies have adopted them as their primary cutting tool.
What’s more? These laser cutters are famous for their versatility, but they are known as one of today’s most precise and accurate cutting tools.
This article features a Co2 laser cutter’s qualities that make it the ideal cutting tool while also highlighting how to work on patches, labels, and appliques.
Enjoy the read.
A patch is a fabric material that covers a hole or a damaged area in fabrics to prevent further damage. A patch can also be used for branding and decoration purposes.
A label is the part of the garment that shows various information about the fabric and instructions on using it.
The label carries essential information like the brand name, logo design, company information, cloth size, price tag, and composition.
It may also carry essential instructions like how to wash and care for the fabric.
These labels are often made of polyester materials or other fabric materials.
Applique is a piece of needlework attached to a fabric material as design.
The applique also comes in different shapes or sizes, and they are either sewn onto the material or pasted using the hot pressing iron method.
Appliques are first prepared using hand needles or industrial machines before they are attached to any garment.
Appliques are recognized and used worldwide for decorating different fronts, mainly ranging from clothes to banners and display materials.
These materials used in fabrics making are specially prepared before they are attached to the fabric.
The preparation process involves several modifications like cutting, and here are the standard general cutting methods used.
The scissors is an instrument that consists of two blades attached, and it is used for cutting materials. The scissors can also be used to cut patches, labels, and appliques.
They are similar to manual scissors, but they are electric-powered, which means they are a lot faster and more efficient.
The handheld iron cutter is a handheld cutting tool often used for cutting metals. But some fabric industries use it for cutting out patches and appliques.
A die-cutting machine is a device used for cutting materials like papers and specific fabric materials. The die-cutting machine sometimes also cuts patches.
The Co2 laser cutter cutting patches, labels, and appliques has become one of the most popular cutting tools for mass production.
It is a favorite for many reasons, including its precision and accuracy and the speed with which it cuts.
The laser cutter is a superior cutting tool compared to other above-mentioned cutting devices, and the versatility of this tool increases its appeal further.
Laser cutters can also leave a sublime finish afterward due to their hot cutting process.
No matter how the patches, labels, and appliques are made, they all have some graphic design and need to be cut along specific contour outlines into designed shapes.
So adding a camera to the laser cutter is necessary, and with the assistance of the CCD camera software, the Co2 laser cutter can automatically cut off the patterns.
Depending on the width of the raw material, we recommend the machine width be a little bit bigger.
The most popular applique laser cutting models of the laser cutter with camera are:
1000mm*800mm (40in*30in), 1000mm*1200mm(40in*48in), 1300mm*900mm(50in*35in), 1600mm*1400mm(63in*55in).
Some top China-made Co2 glass tubes are with long-lasting working hours as well as high cutting speed.
Our clients’ experience shows that a 100w Co2 laser is highly recommended to handle most of the patches’ perfect cutting.
This laser power is an outstanding balance between cutting speed and cutting edge quality.
One 100w glass tube generally can last for one to two years with ten working hours per day.
Finally, and most importantly, the about 350USD price of one tube is genuinely affordable, which makes the maintenance fee of the 100w laser cutter super cheap.
Also known as a cloth badge, an embroidered patch is made with fabric and thread sewn in with a needle.
Embroidered patch making is an old tradition initially done by hand, but the embroidery machine and CCD laser cutting machines have made the process much faster and automatic.
CCD laser cutting machines also produce better-finished embroidered patches.
Embroidery appliques generally use computerized machines to realize massive production.
It is widely used as decorative accessories in fashion apparel, wedding dress, lady dress, costumes, jeans pants, hats, etc.
Lace sewing appliques are decorative motifs that are usually sewn to existing fabric materials with a matching decorative lace pattern or lace trim.
The contour edge can be auto-detected by the KASU self-owned top camera software.
Plush appliques are mostly used in plush toys and products.
The computerized embroidery machine can make plush appliques with multi heads in the roll-to-roll plush fabric.
After embroidery, CCD laser cutting machines will automatically detect the pattern graphic features and cut the appliques off alongside the contour.
Plain appliques are used in the patchwork embroidery.
One piece of applique is put above another fabric and sewed together by the embroidery machine.
As the sewing paths are all set by the embroidery machine, the above applique size needs to be exactly the same to lower the embroidery defection ratio.
Co2 laser cutter is just the right tool to do the cutting job perfectly.
If you are looking for items to brand your products, we will suggest labels for clothing accessories and apparel.
Woven labels and badges are made of 100% polyester threads woven together to create your text or designed graphics into a piece of material.
Compared with manual cutting with hot iron wire or scissors, one set of label laser cutting machines can replace at least ten cutting workers with much better quality.
It can also deal with any complicated design.
Just as the name indicates, screen-printed labels and appliques are with your design screen printed into your material instead of woven or embroidered.
You can choose from satin, cotton, poly satin, poly-cotton, vinyl, plastic, or leather materials.
Like woven labels, the laser cutter with camera can produce the best screen printed labels.
Laser-cut printed labels have been tagged as the best type of printed labels on many occasions, and it is because of the excellent edge results the laser cutter produces.
If you seek excellent colors, creativity, and clarity for your customized labels, then you should not miss out on dye sublimation labels and appliques.
The dye sublimation printing method is ideal for labels, and yes, the CCD camera laser cutting machine is the right tool for this auto cutting task.
An RFID label is also called a smart label because it comes in handy when tracking products.
And RFID washable label is washable and can be direct ironing and sewing.
They are often made of polyester fabric as surface materials and the metal circuit in the middle.
The tags are mainly used for hotel laundry, clothing factory, and medical logistics laundry, etc.
The metal wire inside can not be easily cut off by scissors, making the CCD laser an ideal cutting tool.
Leather patches are patches made with leather materials.
They are common in the fabric industry, and you can find them on most jean jackets and trousers.
The manufacturing process of these leather patches and labels involves extensive use of laser cutters, which are used to apply the most classic of finishes.
Digital printed vinyl with adhesive white ink can be heat transferred to most of the fabric materials, which makes garment customization super easy and low cost.
Any design, any shape.
And ccd camera laser cutting machine can cut the vinyl without any yellow edge.
Is it possible to engrave characters and designs on wooden materials?
Yes. The introduction of co2 laser cutter has provided the option of engraving write-ups on wood as well as cutting off the wood, making the perfect labels from wooden materials.
Acrylic labels are known for their quality and longevity.
These materials show great finishes when worked upon, and laser cutters are ideal for the job.
Hang tags are labels that are temporarily attached to garments with a cord.
They can be made from different materials, including paper, leather, vinyl, and composite materials.
Except for the paper hangtags, one common feature shared with other types of labels is that they appear best when a laser cutter is used to produce them.
When a laser cutter is used to cut labels and patches, the products are always unique afterward and different from other cutting methods.
Here are the key advantages of cutting patches, labels, and appliques with a Co2 laser cutter.
You can use just one set of laser cutter on about every type of materials.
It can also be used to provide a variety of designs for your labels and appliques, both woven, printed, and much more.
A laser cutter is an impressive tool, but it has certain limits to what it can cut, including some patches and labels. Here is a list of some patches and labels that lasers are not ideal for.
Due to the current ccd camera vision technology limitation, the software still cannot 100% adjust the distortion of the embroidery patches.
To avoid breaking off the embroidery thread, if only 0mm edge is allowed, the laser cutter is not recommended for cutting such patches.
The patch may require a handheld iron cutter instead.
PVC patches are not so popular today. Suggestions are that fabric industries avoid them because Co2 lasers are not ideal for cutting them. When a laser cutter is used to cut PVC patches, they tend to develop unwanted black edges afterward.
When using co2 laser cutter cutting paper, it is easy to leave some yellow marks and edges, which is not good for the appearance.
Although a fiber laser cutter may be efficient for this task, Co2 lasers may not be the ideal cutting tool.
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