I need to buy hologram machine, uv? or thermal?

aengel · Post by **aengel** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:12 am

I need to buy a hologram machine to decorate coated polyester film in my printing business.

Here is a link to the master that needs to be duplicated, and reproduced as daughter shims :

http://www.spmtips.com/tgg

Which hologram decorating process can best reproduce this master? UV, thermal, or other?

Please send me datasheets about holography equipment available for purchase.

Sincerely,
Allen Engel.

aengel · Post by **aengel** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:14 am

M.T. Gale teaches (in pg. 56 of "Replication", Chapter 6 of Micro-Optics:. Elements, Systems and Applications, H.P. Herzig, Ed.,. Taylor and Francis, London (1997))
that "commercial roller systems are fully capable of submicron resolution"

http://books.google.com/books?id=pJGjww ... #PPA156,M1

and on pg. 169 "casting and uv replication..." "is highly suited to the accurate replication of high resolution (<< 1 um) and deep (>>1 um ) microstructures."

http://books.google.com/books?id=pJGjww ... #PPA169,M1

The entire chapter is fascinating and very enlightening about mass replication of holograms.

See also Chapter 20, Practical Holography", Graham Saxby Prentice Hall 1988 (ISBN 0-13-693797-7, Chapter 20--Embossed Holograms).

Colin Kaminski · Post by **Colin Kaminski** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:29 pm

There are people here who have done this. You are asking questions that seem a little uninformed. Like you are just now learning what the questions are. Perhaps you should look to Jeffery Weil or Triple Take Holographics for some advice. They have done all of this many times.