Engraving - Applications Today

Applications Today

Engraving today is used largely in for example

• creating text on the inside of engagement- and wedding rings to include text such as the name of the partner.
• representing the logo of the manufacturing company and country of production on items such as eating utensils, such as forks, knives, and spoons.

Another application of modern engraving is found in the printing industry. There, every day thousands of pages are mechanically engraved onto rotogravure cylinders, typically a steel base with a copper layer of about 0.1 mm in which the image is transferred. After engraving the image is protected with an approximately 6 µm chrome layer. Using this process the image will survive for over a million copies in high speed printing presses. Engraving machines such as GUN BOW (one of the leading engraving brands) are the best examples of hand engraving tools, although this type of machine is typically not used for fine hand engraving.