#$400 40W LASER CUTTER INKSCAPE LASERDRW SOFTWARE#
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#$400 40W LASER CUTTER INKSCAPE LASERDRW SOFTWARE#

There are absolutely no safety interlocks of any kind to prevent you from killing yourself, the controlling electronics are probably reverse engineered from a major manufacturer's printer, and the software you'll get is likely a chinese-language plugin for a pirated copy of CorelDraw. Think of it as their version of an open source device, but the plans and software have been stolen or copied from some original design that is now so far removed from the market that it might as well have never existed. These machines, commonly called a K40 or DK40, are originally designed for engraving rubber stamps and hastily assembled by a variety of unnamed manufacturers in China with zero quality control.

#$400 40W LASER CUTTER INKSCAPE LASERDRW FREE#

Alternatively, you can buy a similarly sized 40 watt CO2 laser engraver/cutter from an eBay importer for $350-400 with free shipping. A well-made, but less well supported Chinese machine from a good manufacturer will cost about half that. There are a few other types of lasers, but at the hobbyist level CO2 is by far the most powerful.Д«ecause of those concerns, a well-built and supported machine from an American manufacturer like Epilog starts in the $5-10,000 range for a 30 watt machine with a 400x300mm working area. For those who've never used one, (CO2) laser engravers are fairly complex and dangerous machines even at small 'desktop' size: the wavelength of laser beam they output is invisible to the naked eye, even the small ones are powerful enough that a good reflection of it can permanently damage your eyes, they set the workpiece on fire very easily, the laser tube is excited by 20-25,000 volts at enough mA to kill the poo poo out of you, but is also being cooled by a water pump and a few gallons of water/coolant, cutting the wrong type of materials can produce extremely toxic fumes, and they require good fume extraction even for the right type of materials. After looking honestly at my needs and space I decided a well-sorted hobby machine would be more than sufficient and leave a lot of extra resources to throw at other flights of manchild fancy.ДЄt that time, I also stumbled across the eBay market for laser engraving/cutting machines from China. Over the summer I was lucky enough to be in the position to shop around for a CNC mill or router as a toy for my own personal projects and education.

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