We get it, if you had to buy a laser, you'd buy a Chinese one. We get it. That doesn't make people who don't buy your strategy stupid. If we went with your strategy, and assumed you are running 1/2 the machines you say you keep busy, that would be 6 machines that you keep busy every day. You said you work 18 hour days, so 6 machines at 18 hours, that's 108 hours of billable work each day. At $60 per hour, which would be 1/2 our shop rate, that would be $6,480 per day, $32,400 per 5 day week, and $1,684,800 per year. All done by one guy keeping 6 out of 13 machines busy every day.
I have yet to met anyone in ANY manufacturing that's producing $1.6M in billable work per person.
If that was the case, I seriously doubt you'd be buying refurbished computers to run your machines off of, or looking for the cheapest "(insert tool here)" you can find.
Lasers : Trotec Speedy 300 75W, Trotec Speedy 300 80W, Galvo Fiber Laser 20W
Printers : Mimaki UJF-6042 UV Flatbed Printer , HP Designjet L26500 61" Wide Format Latex Printer, Summa S140-T 48" Vinyl Plotter
Router : ShopBot 48" x 96" CNC Router Rotary Engravers : (2) Xenetech XOT 16 x 25 Rotary Engravers
Real name Steve but that name was taken on the forum. Used Middle name. Call me Steve or Scott, doesn't matter.