Please comment your opinion of this little printer

[curious aardvark]

As far as laser engraving goes it's all about the laser power.
the all-in-one systems tend to got for 500mw lasers - which is way too weak.
ideally you need AT LEAST 2watts.

I'm currently struggling along with a 1.5watt 5v - because they are cheap.
what i'd like is a 12v 3 - 5 watt.
but they are expensive and until i can sell some engraved stuff - i'm not investing anything else in the engraver :-)

currently on my 4th laser. the original died after 1 hour usage. i then fried a 5v by running it at 12v. then i bought a 2.5 watt, that never worked, but unfortunately i extended the wires before testing, so can't send it back.

I reckon I've spnet a smuch on bloody lasers as I di on the whole thing. Which - to be fair - was bloody cheap.

The 1.5watt 5v lasers run at about ?18.
the 2.5 watt 12v was over ?50.

Currently looking at a (they claim) 10watt for ?80 odd. Problem is there's no way of knowing what actual wattage it is and the chinese and hong kong suppliers do tend to lie about it.

No end of people on ebay bought a '5 watt' that turned out to be a 2.5.

And buying anything like that in the uk makes them insanely expensive.

What I'd like (lol) is a 40watt cabinet laser machine. But you're talking about ?350 for the cheap and nasty ones. And I just can't justify it at the moment.