Glowforge, which is offering full refunds to those who want to back out of their pre-order, is now delivering beta units and will end its pre-order promotion at the $2,395 price point on Sept. 30.

To make things even easier, Glowforge offers a range of so-called Proofgrade™ materials digitally encoded so Glowforge printers can recognize them and auto-adjust to print perfect products each time.

Glowforge's 3-D laser printer will be officially rolled out at the end of this year, but representatives announced Thursday that it can be pre-ordered for $1,995 -- half its usual price -- for the ...