When does tackling laser fume extraction become a consideration you can't afford not to think about?

There's a whole new market of customers in the laser industry who demand performance on a budget...

As marking and laser engraving equipment becomes smaller and less-expensive; companies who need, in fact demand, performance on a budget grows. Just a few examples of these marking/encoding lasers include those now frequently used in the gift industry to create logos on a variety of objects; "coding" lasers used to add traceable use-by dates and batch codes to packing and products of the beverage, medical and electronics industries; and those used for decorative shape cutting in a variety of materials. The affordability and  versatility is such that engraving lasers are even becoming mainstays of many colleges' arts and crafts departments.