{"id":13,"date":"2009-07-12T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:19:18","slug":"laser-engraving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/laser-engraving\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Engraving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laser Engraving:<\/p>\n<p>Goldgenie are able to laser engrave straight onto iPods and mobile phones with your signature, family photo and even your finger print!<\/p>\n<p>Laser engraving costs start from \u00a312.50<\/p>\n<p>Please see accepted formats for sending artwork:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUPPLYING ARTWORK<\/strong> (Acceptable Vector Artwork Formats)<br \/>\nDigital artwork must be sent by email to max@localhost in black only vector format.<\/p>\n<p>Please ensure that the job number is clearly stated in the subject field\u00a0\u00a0 of your email.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Accept formats are:Adobe illustrator (Al or ESP \u2013 must be version 8 or lower)<br \/>\nCorelDraw (CDR \u2013 any version from 9 to 12)\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>All texts must be converted to curves\/paths.<\/li>\n<li>All outlines must be converted to object\/paths.<\/li>\n<li>All objects\/paths must be combined and not grouped.<\/li>\n<li>All geometry must be of a professional quality with a reasonable amount of nodes (control points).<\/li>\n<li>A vector format file containing embedded bitmaps is not a true vector artwork and therefore cannot be used.<\/li>\n<li>White geometry cannot be used as a mask to hide any parts of design.<\/li>\n<li>Overlapping geometries must be welded to form one path.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There will be not art charges for use of this type of work<br \/>\nIf the above guidelines are not met then art charges will be incurred, Goldgenie T&amp;C apply.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Acceptable bitmap digital artwork formats<\/p>\n<p>B\/W bitmaps (TIFF, JPG, BMP, and @300dpi scanned 5 x actual mark size \u2013 max A4) can be used but will incur additional conversion charge as stated in our current price guide.<br \/>\nAll conversion work must be authorised by Email. Verbal instruction to process artwork will not be accepted.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Variable data; Personalisation \u2013 serialisation<\/p>\n<p>Variable data (Names, serial numbers, etc) MUST be sent as an Excel file with one variable per cell, all within column A. Each engraving position is taken one cell at a time, for example cell A1 = John Smith. Type must be sent case sensitive. Front type, alignment, colour, etc are not important. Other file formats cannot be accepted for input of variable data.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Printed Artwork<\/p>\n<p>We do not accept artwork in film or printed format.<br \/>\nIf you are still unsure about the required artwork format, please call our design department on 0845 056 8930 or email <a href=\"mailto:marcus@localhost\">marcus@localhost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note that we do not accept any responsibility whatsoever for your correctness or verification of your digital artwork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser Engraving: Goldgenie are able to laser engrave straight onto iPods and mobile phones with your signature, family photo and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[476,477,1008,1009],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services","tag-engrave-ipods","tag-engrave-metal","tag-laser-engraving","tag-laser-marking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12781,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/12781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}