In this guide we show you how to colour mark stainless steel, making use of the Wimbledon logo. This can be applied to bottles, nameplates, flasks, and much more.
Replicating colours with laser marking can be a challenging process, especially if you are intending to get as close to the original logo as possible.
In recent years technology and processes have evolved to allow for colour changing of some metals using a 1µm wavelength fiber laser. Metals suitable for this process are aluminium, which when anodised silver can be altered to black, white or silver finishes only or brass, titanium and stainless steel, where it’s possible to produce effects of gold, red, purple, brown, green and blue.
Stainless steel offers the widest range of controllable colour changes. All of these metals change colour when exposed to laser radiation by forming thin oxide layers that alter the degree of reflection and wavelength of visible light. Successful results can deliver an impressive aesthetic and add significant value to the item being marked.
While the result is not fast to achieve it is permanent and unlike the alternatives of print or paint processes, colour changing metals by laser does not require any chemicals and does not produce any hazardous by-products as a part of the process, so it’s a cleaner process that is environmentally more responsible too.
