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Metal marking is wavelength-gated: 1064nm or nothing for bare stainless, brass, and titanium. The class ladder runs from a 2W IR module (surface marks, jewelry-grade) through Q-switched fiber (tags, depth) to MOPA (pulse-tunable — anneal blacks and true color on stainless).
Fiber vs CO2 for metal →Stainless settings (fiber) →Metal marking hub →

Coated routes let smaller machines play: anodized aluminum bleaches to a white mark and powder coating strips to bare steel on an ordinary diode. Product-wise, that covers most of what actually sells.

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