Columbia Marking Tools’ Silent Scribe makes deep marks on hard materials

Columbia Marking Tools has developed a new C-series of marking machines that perform Silent Scribe™ CNC marking.

Using high-power stylus actuators that operate on relatively low air pressure, the machine can produce extra-deep marks. The ball screw and linear bearing axis design permits the user to have either a quiet-running servomotor drive that provides high-speed marking capability up to 10 characters per second with 0.005-mm positioning accuracy, or a high-performance stepper motor drive that gives 0.02-mm repeatability at five characters per second.

The machine can operate as a stand-alone or, because of its compact size, can be integrated into an automated production system that uses robots.