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== Sector 67's Chinese Machine ==
== Sector 67's Chinese Machine ==
$6700 - ~4'x4' build area.
- Purchased as a group of 3 for around $6800 each including shipping.
- Apparently important to purchase in a group because it forces the manufacturer to send three identical looking printers and not a one-off oddball.
- The other two printers are in Detroit. (i3 plus one privately owned)
- Rumor has it that the owner of the third laser in Detroit wants to sell.
- Sector67 / Detroit printers have 1200mm x 900mm bed. So 47 1/4" wide, cannot take a full 4'.
- The manufacturer is now selling all its new ones with slightly wider beds so people in the States to do a full 4'.
- Feed through is supported on at least two sides and possibly all four. You can continuously run a 4' wide roll of fabric through it.
- 150 watt water-cooled tube.
- They have reason to suspect that the manufacturer uses a 130W power supply beyond its specs. So they limit the laser to 120W for better tube life.
- Requires use of proprietary Chinese CAM software that delivers files in a proprietary format to the laser.
- Software is locked via crypto dongle to one machine.
- Software isn't exactly super user friendly. That said, the people at Sector67 had no problem taking Elizabeth's Adobe Illustrator file and etching it as a raster.
- Fully enclosed; no need for goggles.
- Has mode where it moves the head in a rectangle bounding the artwork, for workpiece positioning.
== [http://www.kernlasers.com/PDF/MICRO%20Brochure.pdf Kern Laser Systems] ==
== [http://www.kernlasers.com/PDF/MICRO%20Brochure.pdf Kern Laser Systems] ==
