KKmoon DK-8-KZ 1000mW High Speed Mini USB Laser Engraver Carver Automatic DIY Print Engraving Carving Machine Off-line Operation with Protective Glasses

As a DIY fanatic, I chose this engraving machine happily. Its engraving delivery was super quick and the come is very well in packaged. It comes with Engraving Machine, USB Cable, Power Cable, Protective Glasses, USB Disk ( Software) , Bag of Accessories, User Manual, I have already do some homemade crafts. This desktop laser engraving machine is great item for DIY enthusiasts to use.

I received the desktop laser engraver machine today，Excellent product，Easy to use and install, It supports offline operation, much convenient than normal engraving.I like it very much，recommended 100%。

The laser and the software are OK. Turns out there is a newer version of the software on the m/f website that works perfectly well with .jpg files. This is easy enough to download but set my Anti-Virus (AVG) alert off. I'm pretty sure it's a false positive as this is mentioned in other reviews. Finally I had to play with the burn-time to get the best results for different materials. If the material burns easily then setting a long burn time resulted in more burn and thus less detail. I found burning images that are simple (ie outlines, words, shapes) it works really well. It will burn converted photos but it takes ages! A one inch image took >40mins. The result was okay, but not great. Note that the burning/engraving produced small amounts of smoke in dark areas of the image, so I had the unit near and open window.

Good Product and Good service

This item was NOT trivial to get up and running, but I got there and I'm pleased with the results. Physical setup was easy and the driver installed without any issues (Win 8). The manual is written in English. My hurdle was loading images into the software that came with the unit. There was a number of sample .jpg files that came along with the software on a usb stick. The software would accept these but not show a preview! When I uploaded the image to the engraver it went bonkers; trying to move the laser position beyond it's physical limits! This created an awful noise as the positioning motors were continuously binding. However I converted the images from .jpg to .gif and hey presto the software and the unit were happy. (Worked with .png too)