The NH IS400 can run as fast, but only since it can run at 2" per second.
As far as not lifting the spindle between the letters, I have never seen another at any show that does what the Dahlgren does.
Many manufacturers do not realize how important it is to optimize their font letters, while keeping the inside-out format. The roman 'T' in NH does the inner corners of the top, surrounds that, but then goes to the bottom of the vertical to start the three line rout of the vertical. The 'I' does it efficiently.
None seem to realize the importance, that I did early on, that consonants should start at the top and vowels at the bottom. That will give a more efficient engraving time. If you start at the top, you usually end up at the bottom.
Xenotec also did one better, after finishing the first line of engraving, it engraved the next line last letter first. In theory it is good, in practice it takes about the same time. Instead of one long pass to restart the line, you need to go from the end of each letter to the beginning of the prior letter.
I tried two optimizing methods in LogoStar. On was great it could jump to a circle at the nearest point of the circle rather than the beginning. The second way was faster because even though it needed to jump to the beginning of the circle it never needed to go back and catch a part of a line that started in the middle. Testing is critical in these areas.
Edit: I left off the point of the post. You never can tell what you will get until you use it for a while and make comparisons. I believe that most companies say that it works and that is good enough. Only Xenotec seems to really look into improving everything. 
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