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There is no limit to what you can create with Glowforge Pro’s powerful laser, intuitive features, and all-day performance. Cut, score, and engrave wood, acrylic, leather - even chocolate. Take your craft to a new level of joy, easily make unique products, or wow a classroom by instantly turning a sketch into an object.
There is no limit to what you can create with Glowforge Pro. Its powerful laser, intuitive features, and all-day performance bring your imagination to life.
Air Filter ships within 30 days
Product Highlights
10x faster top speed compared to Spark
Giant prints with Pro Passthrough
Our most powerful 45w laser
Print all day with enhanced cooling
Live Camera View
12 Month Worry-Free Warranty
Simple setup in under 30 minutes
Works with hundreds of materials
There is no limit to what you can create with Glowforge Pro’s powerful laser, intuitive features, and all-day performance. Cut, score, and engrave wood, acrylic, leather - even chocolate. Take your craft to a new level of joy, easily make unique products, or wow a classroom by instantly turning a sketch into an object.
Glowforge exterior (Pro and Plus): 38″ x 20.75″ x 8.25″ (965mm x 527mm x 210mm)
(Pro and Plus)
Cutting area: approx. 11" (279mm) deep and 19.5" (495mm) wide
Maximum material depth: 18" (455mm) for Plus; unlimited for Pro
unlimited for Pro
Maximum material width: 20" (515mm)
Maximum material height: 2" (50mm)
Maximum material height with tray: 0.5" (13mm)
Can safely print on any laser-compatible material, with examples below. Glowforge recommends Proofgrade™ materials for automatic settings and perfect results.
Wood
Acrylic
Leather
Draftboard
Veneer
Paper
Cardboard
Delrin
Mylar
Rubber
Cork
Sandpaper
Food
...and hundreds more!
Glass
Stone
Slate
Titanium
Aluminum
Marble
Ceramic tile
Corian
...and hundreds more!
Easy and powerful interface will have you printing in minutes
Web interface works on Mac, PC, Linux, and many mobile devices (internet required)
Compatible with JPG, PNG, SVG, PDF, and other file formats.
Glowforge Premium includes support for DXF files
Drag-and-drop layout with live camera preview to position designs on the material
Automatically scan drawings and print without design software
Catalog of premium, customizable, ready-to-print designs
When used with Proofgrade materials, automatically determines settings for perfect cutting and engraving
Wide Angle Camera — Mounted on the lid, provides a view of the entire printable area, accurate within 0.25” (6mm)
Macro Camera — Mounted on the head, provides extreme up-close information for autofocus, accurate within 0.004” (0.1mm)
Dual high-efficiency internal LED strips give your work broad illumination for a wide angle view
Headlights under the lid give point illumination for precise precisioning
CO2 Laser — Custom CO2 glass laser tube capable of continuous operation at 10,600 nm; rated at 45 watts for Pro and 40 watts for Plus
Fixed Alignment — Factory calibrated optical system does not require any alignment by the user
Sealed Optics — Enclosed optical path with cleanable and replaceable windows protects the laser optics to avoid replacement or realignment
Case — High modulus injection molded plastic
Linear System — Custom extruded aluminum linear rails with belt driven v-wheel carrier
Motion — Dual hybrid stepper Y axis; single hybrid stepper X axis
Cooling — Closed loop self contained internal cooling.
Air Assist — Internal air assist with no external compressor hookup required
Recommended Operating Temperature: 60F-75F (16C-24C) Plus; 60F-81F (16C-27C) Pro
Wi-Fi required (2.4 GHz b/g/n and WPA2, WPA, WEP, or open)
Ventilation with either the Glowforge Compact Filter, or an open-able window within 8 feet
110/220 VAC, 50 or 60 HZ outlet
Glowforge Plus and Pro have 800W peak power consumption
Compact Filter has an additional 350W peak power consumption
Precision power settings allow enough control to draw lines on copy paper
3D engrave settings carve detailed surfaces
Positioning precision to 0.001” (0.025mm)
Engraving up to 1355 DPI
Pro Passthrough slot allows the use of material that’s up to 1/4″ (6.3mm) high, up to 20” (50.8cm) wide, and as long as desired
Upgraded solid state thermoelectric cooling
Certified to UL standards
Safety sensors alert in case of bumps or unplanned movement
Safety sensors warn in case of overtemperature conditions
Safety sensors notify when fan performance changes
The Glowforge Plus is a Class 1 laser device with no special training required
The Glowforge Pro is a Class 4 laser device and comes with all necessary safety training materials
Certified to UL/ANSI/IEC 60950-1-07 and CAN/CSA-C22.2 NO. 60950-1-07 (R16) by TUV Rheinland
12 Month Comprehensive Warranty
Full warranty info at glowforge.com/warranty
Bring your ideas to life, like magic!
Give one of our Glowforge experts a call or instantly chat online.
Glowforge Air Filter
Our Air Filter upgrade lets you put your Glowforge anywhere.
Lasers like your Glowforge require ventilation. All Glowforge printers come with a 4” (10 cm) diameter hose which allows you to use your Glowforge near a window. It sits on the ground near your Glowforge printer and cleans the air, allowing you to operate it anywhere in your home, school, or office!
Make just about anything
Precisely cut, engrave, and score hundreds of materials up to ½” thick with a professional-grade laser.
Engrave photographs, patterns, or text in vivid detail onto materials like wood, acrylic, stone, leather, and more.
Create infinitely long projects using the Passthrough slot with continuous auto-tracking.
See exactly what you’re printing with live camera preview and precise autofocus.
Great question! Every Glowforge laser is easy to set up and comes with everything you need to get started creating with hundreds of materials on Day 1. There are 2 series of Glowforge lasers:
Whichever Glowforge laser you choose, it’ll be easy, fast, and fun to get started: within thirty minutes of receiving your Glowforge, you can be holding your first finished print! Here are some more details to help you make the right choice for you!
Glowforge uses subtractive manufacturing while traditional 3D printers use additive manufacturing. A 3D printer builds up material, like plastic filament, layer by layer. With Glowforge, you’ll put a piece of material like leather, wood, or acrylic in the machine and it carves out your product using laser light. The technical name for the category of tools that includes Glowforge is a CNC laser cutter engraver, but that's a mouthful, so we call it a 3D laser printer.
You can make an endless variety of useful, beautiful, and practical things from a bunch of different materials like wood, leather, felt, fabric, acrylic, paper, and more. See what amazing things other Glowforge owners are making over on Instagram, #glowforge.
Great news! You can use your Glowforge from a Mac, PC, tablet, and smartphone, using our simple, powerful, and free web interface.
Glowforge is incredibly easy to use. Most of our customers tell us it takes them less than 30 minutes to get their printer out of the box, plug it in, set it up, AND finish their first print!
The web interface, point-and-click software, and simple hardware (just one button!) combine to make it both simple and easy to use.
Your Glowforge comes with a detailed manual to help you learn to use it easily and quickly. We also have many resources to help: our community forum answers most questions within hours, our detailed learning information at glowforge.com/support answers the most frequently asked questions, and we’re always here to help if you have a question.
We’ve seen incredible creativity from people ranging from preschool students to great-grandparents. We have no doubt you’ll be able to create amazing things!