Cryo tubes laser engraving options - Scinomix, AFYS3G, LVL

Hi All,

I am looking for feedback on tubes laser engraving instruments, in particular:

Aiming to engrave the cryo tubes before they are used on the bench and frozen. The tubes are biobanking 1mL FluidX . We are excluding ink based instruments.

The main questions at the moment:

  • Cost
  • Reliability
  • Tubes it can handle
  • What maintenance requires
  • Data integration ready?
  • Does it include tube bc reader for tube’s native bottom 2d barcodes?
  • Software features: can jobs be scheduled and run based on priority? Can it be paused to remove already etched racks?

Any other feedback or lab references are welcomed too.

I am based in Australia and there is no lab here with any of these devices, that we know of, hence asking globally.