Regular Gold Foil? Possible Power Settings?

[evansd2]

There has been discussion on this.

Previously:

Roland Foil Transfer Laser - can the glowforge do this

So I think it’s a maybe. I found this: It was the only place I could find that showed how it actually works. If you don’t know it requires a special film that heats up when hit with the laser. Essentially a very localized heating effect that transfers the foil. Cool idea. That being said: this doesn’t appear to be a CO2 laser. I suspect diode but maybe fiber. I’ll leave it to someone else to figure that out. The point is that I’m not sure if the heat film will be activated by the waveleng…

Yet another new maker toy

…although I don’t expect many of us will be interested (for one thing: msrp is $13k). What I’m interested in is, how does the thing work? And can we use the laser foils in our GF?

A quick forum search for “Roland” would have found this and maybe more.