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When did the Chinese laser engravers come to life

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020
by Tom Skram
Do any of you know the story behind the Chinese laser engraving machines? When did these come to life, who were the first manufacturers of these? I see that Russ refers to some of the Chinese machines as "Redsail copies" I was almost buying an Epilog / Trotec machine that was way too small for my use and which was very expensive. After doing a good deal on the two Redsail machines we have at a maker-space in Oslo (https://bitraf.no), I decided to buy a CM1390 from the same supplier.

Re: When did the Chinese laser engravers come to life

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020
by Gene Uselman
Good question- the earliest Youtube vid I see is from 2011- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNsM4HDx-c
There were industrial lasers back to the 1960s, but I think they were closer to our current Fiber Lasers.....?