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It depends on four things, in roughly this order: web width, the number of LaserSharp® modules (which sets how many features can be produced at once and therefore line speed), the laser power and wavelength the material needs, and the automation around the process — unwind and rewind, registration, inline verification. That is why the packaging machines are positioned by what you run, not by a list price: FocusPro on a 600 mm mid-web or a 1,000, 1,400, or 1,800 mm web, from down-web scoring to perforation, shaped features, contour cutting, drop removal, and the full option set. Where the requirement is easy-open scoring alone, on a pouch line you already run, Scoreline is a module that mounts on that machine rather than replacing it, to 840 mm. What the price is made of is the module count and the power your material actually needs, and a trial in the PhotonX lab is how those are established — so a quote is firmest after one. A buyer who already knows the configuration can ask for a quote directly. Where the volume does not yet justify the capital, contract manufacturing on the same equipment is the alternative.

Start from the feature and the web. Converting on a 600 mm mid-web or a 1,000, 1,400, or 1,800 mm web — scoring, perforation, cross-web or shaped features, contour cutting, drop removal, and the full option set — is FocusPro. Webs to 350 mm run on MicroLam. If what you need is easy-open scoring on a pouch-making machine you already own, Scoreline mounts on that line instead — one or two scoring modules on a carriage, not a machine. All of them run the same LightGuide® software and share the same core control architecture, so recipes and operator knowledge carry across.

Yes. The LaserSharp® module is sold to OEMs and integrated into existing presses, laminators, and slitter-rewinders. What LasX needs to know is the web path, the available space, the line's encoder and registration signals, and the material — the integration is engineered around those.

Finished parts from roll or sheet — flexible electronics, security products, medical and aerospace components, folding cartons, commercial print — manufactured continuously on a patented vacuum process conveyor that holds the material flat and in register. It replaces the cutting die and everything that comes with it: tooling cost, die lead time, and the setup between jobs. A changeover is a file load.

One or the other, chosen per machine — sheet and roll infeed on one SmartFinish is custom equipment. The rest is configured to order: a 500 mm or 600 mm process width, one or two LaserSharp® LPMs at the laser power the job needs, and one of three part-handling packages — Essential (part separation and manual takeoff), Sort (adds robotic sorting), or Finish-to-ship (adds robotic stacking and packing). Print and feature registration are both standard. The output is finished parts ready to ship, not a sheet that still needs stripping.

Laser finishing wins on short runs, frequent changeovers, versioned or personalized work, and any job where die lead time is the schedule. Long runs of one stable design are where a die still earns its keep. If your mix is moving toward shorter runs, the calculator on /resources/roi-calculator puts numbers on the crossover.

Metal foil on a web — bare copper and aluminum, coated electrode foil, shim stock, and metallized carriers — cut, perforated, and selectively ablated roll-to-roll on a 600, 1,000, 1,400, or 1,800 mm web. It shares the frame, the LaserSharp® modules and the LightGuide® control with FocusPro™, and changes what a metal web needs: tension control matched to thin foil, unwind and rewind with splice handling, and debris and fume extraction sized for metal processing.

Because the web is the hard part, not the laser. Foil is unforgiving of tension error, it arrives on rolls that have to be spliced, and cutting metal produces debris and fume that film does not. The laser source also changes — NIR and green rather than CO₂, nanosecond through femtosecond, chosen for the foil and its coating.

That is trial data, not a machine specification. Burr height, heat-affected zone, kerf width, and edge oxidation belong to the material and the parameter set rather than to the frame, and are measured per foil thickness and coating in the PhotonX lab and reported back. A nitrogen or argon assist-gas shroud is a configure-to-order option where an oxide-free edge is specified.

Precision micromachining on a square bed, 310 × 310 mm or 670 × 670 mm — wafers to 300 mm, panel-level packages, glass interposer, and diagnostics and medical device work. The part rides under the beam on a dual-linear-motor XY stage, with 10 µm positional repeatability. Feature size is set by the laser module and established in the trial. Sheets, boards, and plates larger than 670 × 670 mm run on SheetPro.

NIR (1030–1064 nm), green, UV, and CO₂ LaserSharp® modules, with pulse durations from nanosecond to femtosecond on the solid-state sources — wavelength and pulse duration are chosen independently per application. A femtosecond module is the configure-to-order choice for through-glass vias and glass interposer work.

Automated registration reads features on each part, maps the actual geometry against the nominal file, and corrects the toolpath for distortion — which matters most on laminated or humidity-sensitive stock. Vision registration, self-calibration, and the cleanroom configuration are all standard; full automatic load and unload is an option.

ExactCore moves the beam over a fixed bed; ExactPro moves the part under the beam on an XY stage. That makes ExactCore simpler and faster within its field, with fewer parts to wear or align. ExactPro is for parts that need 10 µm repeatability across the full bed, and for work that combines stage motion with the scanner.

Whatever the source cuts. CO₂ handles films, papers, plastics, and flexible materials. Nanosecond through femtosecond sources handle medical polymers, thin metals, glass, and ceramics. Feature size is set by the laser module, not the platform — prove it on your material in PhotonX first. If you buy one after a trial, the results in your report become its acceptance criteria.

The job moves with you. LightGuide runs every LasX machine, so a job designed on ExactCore runs on ExactPro or SheetPro. Talk to the same team, keep the same software, and add the stage, the bed size, or the automation the work now needs.

Sheets, boards, and plates too large for a square precision bed — electronics, medical sheets and panels, aerospace and defense, battery and energy, gaskets and adhesives. The bed stays still and a LaserSharp® LPM travels overhead on an XY gantry, on a standard 800 × 1,000 mm, 4 × 8 ft, or 5 × 12 ft bed. Larger beds, odd aspect ratios, more than one LPM, and full automation are quoted as custom equipment.

Yes, with a femtosecond LaserSharp® LPM configured to order. Femtosecond sources bring low average power and a small scan field, so field size and throughput for femtosecond work are established on your material in the trial rather than promised across the full bed.

When the product is a narrow roll — labels, medical laminates, adhesive components, flexible circuits — and the value is in precise features on a compact, often expensive web rather than throughput across a wide one. MicroLam comes in 100 mm and 350 mm web widths, with cantilever web handling and hand-loaded rolls — which keeps the footprint small, and is why it stops at narrow web: a 600 mm mid-web line runs on FocusPro.

The web path itself. Unwind and rewind spindle count, nip stations, and one to three LaserSharp® LPMs and their laser sources are specified per application, with a precision lamination station as an option for multilayer laminates. Control is the same Proton λ and LightGuide® architecture as every other LasX machine.

Ink, ribbon, or label in the marking step, and their changeovers. Nothing is added to the package, so the mark is compatible with recyclable mono-material structures. Content is fully variable at unit level — date and lot codes, serialization, covert security marks, and full label graphics.

By module count. Objects are conveyed past one or more LaserSharp® modules, single-sided or in 360° rotation; the bank is sized to line rate and mark area, from a single module to sixteen — the largest configuration in production. The laser source is matched to the substrate (UV, green, NIR, or CO₂), and µVerify™ inline inspection is an option.

Yes. LasX and Procter & Gamble launched LaserSharp® Marking on Tide® Ultra OXI Boost, named Best in Class at the 2026 PAC Global Awards. Durability is verified on your package and artwork before a machine is quoted.

Yes — this is a core part of the business. LasX supplies LPMs as OEM modules with mechanical and electrical integration envelopes and control-handshake documentation, for presses, laminators, and slitter-rewinders. What LasX needs to know is the web path, the available space, the line's encoder and registration signals, and the material.

It depends on absorption. CO₂ at 9.4 µm behaves very differently from 10.6 µm on some polymers and adhesives — a difference that shows up as edge quality and achievable speed — and NIR, green, and UV sources — at nanosecond down to femtosecond pulses — cover what CO₂ cannot. The PhotonX lab establishes this on your material rather than guessing from a spec sheet.