Toronto Laser Engraving Service
Beautifully mark a wide range of materials and products with custom branding and personal messages.
Laser engraving is a fast, versatile way to embellish corporate gifts, mark industrial parts, and etch complex artwork! Our precision controlled laser engraving process subtly burnishes the product's surface, resulting in a luxurious yet elegant finish.
Customize a Variety of Items
We can brand and personalize many existing products, gift items and raw materials you provide. We can add a logo, text or image, including:
- Metal Engraving
- Wood Engraving
- Leather Engraving
- Glass Engraving
Fast Turnaround
Hot Pop Factory provides a fast turnaround and options to receive your engraved products:
- 24hr Rush Service
- 48hr Rush Service
- Standard 3-5 Business Day
Diverse Applications
Hot Pop Factory provides engraving services for a vast array of applications including:
- Branded Products
- Awards
- Signage
- Artwork
- Fashion
- Architecture Models
- Prototypes
- and more...
Laser Engraving Toronto Case Studies
Learn why local designers and makers choose Hot Pop Factory for their projects
You’ll Be In Good Company.
Hundreds of companies across Canada have selected Hot Pop Factory as a go to place for all their Laser Engraving Services.
Customer Testimonials
We love working with Hot Pop! We've gone to them repeatedly for big and small Laser Cutting projects, always with great results. We often involve them throughout the design process to help us tackle tough problems and come up with unconventional solutions.
Mark Simmons
Industrial Designer, Future Artificat
Amazing customer service and their attention to detail is beyond expectation. I'm excited to work on more projects with Hot Pop Factory for our VAWK collections in the future.
Sunny Fong
Fashion Designer, VAWK
Materials
We stock a wide variety of popular materials as listed below. Customers can bring their own materials. We ask that they include an MSDS or information from the manufacturer. This will help us confirm that we can safely process the materials with a laser.
Here is a list of common materials we can process. For more images and examples, check out our Full Materials Guide.
Plywood / MAX SIZE: 600 x 900 x 200mm
Laser engraving gives a natural and premium look to any wooden material or item. Recently we worked on beautifully engraved illustrations and handwriting, as well as engraved gifts and signage. The possibilities are endless! Discover the benefits of laser engraving wood.
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- Cut Engrave Score Wood
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- Wood Products
Laser Engraving Price & Process
We price Laser Engraving services on an individual basis as most projects are custom and require unique considerations.
In general the total cost of a project is some combination of materials, labor and machine time. Listed is a breakdown of factors we consider when quoting your project.
The easiest way to get pricing for your job is to submit your project for a quote.
File Preparation
Using our pre-made templates is the easiest and cheapest way to prepare your projects for Laser Engraving. We need clean vector files that are the right size. Please separate the linework into layers for each laser operation: cutting, scoring, and engraving.
Machine Setup
Jobs cut on our stock sheet material are generally the least expensive to setup. Jobs that require special alignment on existing products are generally more expensive. This is because additional labor is required to create jigs that align your artwork correctly.
Cutting
For cutting operations we use special software to estimate the amount of machine time needed for your project. For most jobs this is the bulk of the cost. Thick or dense materials take longer to cut and are therefore more expensive to work with than thinner, light-weight materials.
Engraving
Engraving operations tend to be more expensive than cutting operations. This is because the laser must make many passes over your artwork moving a fraction of a millimeter each time in order to cover the entire surface area of your artwork. The cost mainly depends on the amount of surface area that needs engraving. Unlike cutting, the material price does not generally affect the engraving price.
Labor
Labor applies to jobs that require special handling (i.e. extremely delicate materials like fine papers), or jobs that require special finishing operations or complex file setup. Most projects setup using our templates and flat sheet material do not require any additional labor.
Materials
Materials are priced by the square foot, and generally increase in cost with quality and thickness. Detailed information about materials for laser engraving can be found above.
Turnaround
Our standard turnaround time can be viewed here. Rush service is available if you need your project quickly. It costs more because we must adjust our production schedule. This allows us to prioritize your project over others.
Laser Engraving Turnaround Times
Laser Engraving Templates
Below are Laser Engraving templates for some common software packages. These templates indicate the maximum cut size of our machine (900mm x 600mm), with layers to separate your artwork for laser cutting, engraving and scoring.
Adobe Illustrator (.AI File)
The templates below provide artboards that correspond to the maximum work area of our laser cutter. If you are cutting multiple sheets, please save them as separate files. We recommend outlining all fonts, and releasing all clipping masks for laser cutting. Your artwork should be divided into the three layers provided: 'Cut', 'Engrave' and 'Score'.
AutoCAD (.DXF 2000 File)
The AutoCAD template includes a polyline indicating the maximum work area of the laser cutter. Your parts should be placed inside of the indicated area, with linework moved into the premade layers for cutting, engraving and scoring operations. The laser cutter is unable to recognize live text, or hatches in AutoCAD, so these must be exploded and turned into polylines before sending.
Other Software Packages
The above software packages are some of the most popular, but there are many other programs that are suitable for generating designs for laser cutting. For cutting and scoring, any software capable of exporting vector linework is suitable. If you are only looking to engrave, then we can accept raster images generated in software like Photoshop, keep in mind though that raster images are not suitable for cutting or scoring operations.
For cutting and scoring. We can accept any of the following common vector formats:
- .SVG
- .DXF 2000
- .EPS
- .AI
- .DWG 2000
- .3DM Rhino 5
For engraving we can accept any of the formats above. If you only have a .JPG or .PNG file, please email us at team@hotpopfactory.com and we can provide you with the instructions on how to convert it to one of the above formats.