Ponoko supplies an online laser cutting service that makes custom cardboard products from your digital product designs for businesses and agencies.
What can you make by laser cutting cardboard? For natural and corrugated cardboard varieties, packaging, prototyping and Google VR kits are the most popular uses. Matboard, because of its more refined finish and vivid color options (blue, gray, green and red), expands beyond packaging and prototypes into laser cut cardboard architectural models, decorative arts, collage and crafts. But don’t stop there; let your imagination run wild!
To get started laser cutting cardboard, simply upload your product designs to get an instant online quote. If all looks good, give the thumbs up and the lasers will get to work making your custom cardboard products.
Pricing for laser cut cardboard starts at $1, and your cardboard products can be made and shipped directly to your door as fast as the same day.
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Laser cutting and laser engraving are digital making methods available online from Ponoko.
Laser cutting cardboard is a subtractive manufacturing technology that uses a high-power laser beam to cut flat-sheet materials. A computer directs this laser to follow the cutting line provided in your digital design. The high-precision laser vaporizes a cut line through the cardboard, leaving a 90-degree high-quality cut-edge finish.
Laser engraving is similar, but instead of using the laser beam to cut through the cardboard, it engraves the surface. Following the engraving line or area in your digital design, the laser vaporizes a thin layer of the cardboard surface, exposing what lies beneath. For cardboard, the resulting finish is a shallow indented section.
You can laser cut cardboard and engrave custom designs on the surface by using your very own personal factory.