The Smart Laser Mini is an open source, easy to assemble type of laser cutter and engraver. It is completely do it yourself for example you can make engraving marks on many kinds of surfaces and you can even use this laser to cut on many kinds of materials. The Smart Laser Mini uses simple mechanisms, making it easy to assemble. ![]() PicEngrave Pro 6 On Sale at 15% Off Home Of Wagner, Our Little Helper And At picengrave.com we offer unique, user friendly and affordable image to G-code CNC photo engraving solutions for spindle & laser diodes. John Champlain (PicEngrave Pro 6 author) and Jeff Woodcock (Master Machinist, CNC Artist and Inventor/Developer of the 8bit Grayscale Laser Image Engraving Process) and Jeff's son Jeffery, has teamed together to bring you, one of a kind Image to Gcode Spindle & Laser Image engraving software solutions. Our Full Featured Program PicEngrave Pro 6 + Laser was developed for the Hobbyist and Professional engravers and has Support for Arduino UNO / grbl Controllers as well. We also offer a Lite version, PicLaser. PicLaser was specifically developed for use with Arduino UNO / grbl controlled Laser engraving machines and it includes the option to generate Gcode for Mach3 and other controller programs. The use of laser's to engrave true gray scale images on a variety of materials is a relatively new development, and is evolving and being improved by us almost on a daily basis. Videos of our Machines in Action John's Videos Jeff's Videos J-Tech's Video Web Counter Thank you for your visit, Jeff Woodcock and John Champlain August 2014. One and All, Being a new member to this forum and a very happy Mac user, I've been searching for two years to find a Mac compatible laser engraver to expand my business with. Best spices for mac and cheese. So far I've run into two problems. One, there just does not seem to be many Mac compatible laser engravers on the market totally constructed and made in the US. And two, the companies that do say they are Mac compatible required a Mac user to load additional software on their computer (Epilog and Universal) so that graphic programs, such as Corel, will run on the Mac. I'm using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. The only Mac compatible laser engraver that I've found are the units from Laser Pro. Their 35 watt C180 model has a Mac compatible driver due on the market this month. Can anyone point me in the right direction for other Mac compatible laser engravers? Thank you very much in advance. Hp laserjet 3050 replacement. Dave, I run Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro and send jobs to my Epilog via wireless with no problems. I do have a dedicated windows machine too, which I store all my files on, but make most of my documents on the Mac using Photoshop and CorelDraw. It's very easy to pass docs back and forth using Bootcamp as compared to Parallels which I hated. All you have to do to send a job to the laser is load the driver onto your pc side and you're all set. The only glitch is the file does not have the same name as you see on CorelDraw for some reason. It names the job with a generic 'job 1', 'job 2' title, which is not a big deal to me. Dave, I've asked for it on these forums and the response is that they don't do Mac drivers. OSX is going through the roof on sales. If you didn't see the Keynote from WWDC yesterday about their sales, you should watch it. It'll shut all the 'Mac's are overpriced systems for stupid people' up. Mac sales are on fire. I've said it before, the first big boy to come out with a Mac driver is going to clean house. I agree, I want to run a laser from OSX, but not from a Mac loaded with Windows. That defeates the purpose of having the Mac. Dee, Thank you very much for your response. Please don't take this personally but loading additional software on a Mac to allow it to use a Windows based software package is exactly what I do not want to do. That defeats the easy use of a Mac with regards to graphics. I've tried both Parallels and Bootcamp and found both to be somewhat easy to use but, again, there is a learning curve etc, etc, which takes time and time is money in a business, not to mention the additional costs in purchasing additional software. Regardless, I sincerely appreciate your comments and look forward to hearing from you again as I start getting more and more into the laser engraving business. Thanks again! Dave The Wood Block, Ltd. Dave, I am a MacUser from 1984 - and hated to give up my all-Mac status, but Corel quit working on Mac with v5, which does not work with OSX (and Classic was just awful), same with my favorite program, FreeHand and I hate Illustrator. I'm getting to 'not hate' CorelDraw now that I have to use it all the time and I still dislike the pc- interface requirement, but it does make it easier to use a laser and that's what I want to do. No point in complaining about the lack of Mac drivers, since you can't do anything about it. Unless you are willing to wait an undetermined amount of time (if ever) for drivers to appear, the only other thing you can do is go back in time. I had an Epilog from maybe 1990 which had a Mac driver. Apparently there was not enough demand for it, so it was dropped.
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