Acrylic Display Stand for Stand-Offs

This week we're making an acrylic display stand for our new line of Stand-Offs and Mounting Fixtures (Distance Holders)! These Stand-Offs are manufactured in Germany and are stainless steel for the highest long-lasting quality!

We've created an acrylic stand for them using our Speedy 400 laser cutting machine, our Mutoh ValueJet 426UF UV printer, and our EMX Acrylic Strip Heater!

Stand-Offs available here:
https://www.engraving-supplies.ca/laser-engraving-...

Artwork files attached.

We take our TroGlass Clear 3mm cast acrylic sheet that's 18.5" x 12" to fit into our Mutoh 426UF UV printer. We print our design onto the back of the acrylic (make sure the image is flipped horizontally). We print in CMYKW (variable dot) and the white settings are White-on-Colour.

We make sure to print registration marks onto our design. There has to be at least three 0.25" (diameter) marks, that have a black hairline outline - RGB full black. The Trotec vision camera system reads the dots and proceeds to cut the image as it appears in the file.

For this project we've used our Trotec Speedy 400 100w laser cutting machine with a power setting of 100 and speed of 1.2 for the cut.

We then take our EMX acrylic strip heater (acrylic bender) and pre-heat it for 15 minutes. Afterwards we place our acrylic piece onto the heater for 5min. Once the acrylic is heated it can be bent into any specific shape, in which case we bend the base back to make our stand - and let it cool for a few minutes.

Finally, we screw our stand-offs onto each hole in our acrylic design and we're all done!