The term "engraving" often conjures up a vision of an artisan with hand tools labouring painstakingly over a family heirloom. While many craftsmen do still engrave using traditional methods, sadly they now represent only a tiny minority. Over the past decade a change in technology has taken place that makes engraving much more cost effective and allows us to meet an ever growing demand for high volume output producing perfect multiple copies.

Open-architecture electronics and multi-purpose software allows the engraver to manage several different types of hardware while only having to learn one or two basic software programs.

Many third party industry packages run vinyl plotters, routers, engravers and lasers. Once the software is mastered, any output device may be used to reproduce the finished artwork; not unlike an office laser or inkjet printer.