For tattoo studios
Modestic Edge, Cynosure Lutronic Hollywood Spectra and Asclepion NanoStar Y — a comparison of three lasers of the same class: nanosecond, active Q-Switch, built for tattoo removal.
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The short answer
All three are free-standing Q-Switch Nd:YAG lasers: 1064 and 532 nm, a top-hat beam, up to 10 Hz, multi-pulse modes. On the chair they do the same work — removing a tattoo over a series of treatments whose number depends mostly on the ink and its depth.
The Edge costs 133,497 zł gross with delivery, installation, training and a skin-cooling unit — and it is the only one of the three whose price is published at all. The estimated market value of the Spectra is around 300,000 zł, of the NanoStar around 280,000 zł. In a lease instalment that is three treatments a month against seven, for the whole term of the agreement.
The starting point
All three are built around the same thing: an Nd:YAG resonator with an active Q-Switch, 1064 and 532 nm, a top-hat beam, up to 10 Hz. The physics of shattering ink is identical in each, and none of them has a technology the other two lack.
You could not tell these three apart by the result on a tattoo: the outcome is decided by the pigment, the depth, and the energy density you set. The differences start outside the resonator — in spot size, in what the kit includes, in price, and in who services the device when it stops.
Pulse
The Edge and the Spectra publish the same energy at 1064 nm: 1200 mJ. The Spectra delivers it in 5 ns, the Edge in 6 ns — on paper 240 MW against 200 MW of peak power.
In practice, 5 and 6 ns sit on the same shelf. Both pulses fall within the same photoacoustic window, and at the same spot both devices put exactly the same energy into the skin. The real boundary runs elsewhere: between the nanosecond and picosecond classes, where the pulse is shorter by two orders of magnitude, not by a single nanosecond.
Asclepion does not publish a pulse energy, so the NanoStar’s peak power cannot be calculated — that cell in the table stays empty.
Instalment
An instalment only means something against the revenue the device earns. For the Edge we calculate it from the published catalogue price. For the Spectra and the NanoStar — from estimated market value, because none of their manufacturers or Polish distributors publishes a price.
Revenue4 500 zł10 × 450 zł
We calculate the instalment as 1% of the laser’s value per month. It is an average. The real figure depends on the term, the deposit and the residual. Treat this as a preview, not an offer.
The Spectra and NanoStar prices are estimated market value, rounded to 10,000 zł — derived from used-device prices from 2018, 2022 and 2025 and from our knowledge of working in this market. On 23.08.2026 we checked three Polish distributors of these brands: none publishes a price for any device. If any of these prices is ever published, we will put it in place of the estimate.
Price and financing
Monthly instalment, 1% of the price
Leasing from 12 to 60 months, deposit from zero. With a different term and residual the instalment comes out different. The Spectra and NanoStar instalments are calculated from estimated market value.
Work out the instalment for your laser →Servicing and repairs
A breakdown costs more than the repair itself, because clients booked three weeks ahead do not reschedule themselves.
Our rates for inspections, calibrations and repairs are written out in the price list together with turnaround times. You can compare them with what you hear from the other two before you sign, not at the first breakdown. Lutronic writes of lower system costs with a "Data on file" footnote — a document the reader cannot open; ask every supplier you are considering for a published price list.
Rates for free-standing lasers — the class this page is about. The full list, repairs included, is in the price list.
See the service price list →Documents
The choice
For a clinic removing tattoos at 1064 and 532 nm that counts the instalment and the treatment time. The largest spot and the lowest mass of the three, with delivery, installation, training and — alone among the three — a skin-cooling unit in the price. Service is run by the importer, with a published price list.
The same Q-Switch class, so a result on the chair very close to the Edge. A pulse 1 ns shorter and a fractional MDF handpiece, which the Edge lacks — but a spot more than a third smaller, skin cooling not included, and an estimated market value more than twice the Edge’s price.
Working parameters nearly identical to the Edge: the same 6 ns pulse, the same resonator class, a very similar result on skin. It weighs 150 kg against 80, its spot is more than three times smaller, skin cooling is bought separately — and by our estimate it costs more than twice as much.
We compare the NanoStar Y — the Nd:YAG 1064 and 532 nm version, the one that does the same job as the Edge. The C and C MT versions with a 694 nm ruby rod serve a different range of applications and stay outside this comparison.
Table
| Parameter | Modestic Edge | Hollywood Spectra | Asclepion NanoStar Y |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urządzenie |  |  |  |
| Gain medium | Nd:YAG | Nd:YAG | Nd:YAG |
| Resonator | Active Q-Switch | Active Q-Switch | Active Q-Switch |
| Wavelengths | 1064 · 532 nm | 1064 · 532 nm | 1064 · 532 nm |
| Auxiliary wavelengths | 585 · 650 nmoptional dye handpieces | 585 · 650 nmoptional dye handpieces | none |
| Energy @ 1064 nm | 1200 mJ | 1200 mJ | not published |
| Pulse @ 1064 nm | 6 ns | 5 ns | 6 ns |
| Peak power @ 1064 nm | 200 MW | 240 MW | not published |
| Energy @ 532 nm | 500 mJ | not published | not published |
| Largest spot | 10 mm ⌀2–10 mm range | 8 mm ⌀3–8 mm zoom | 5 × 5 mmsquare handpieces |
| Area per pulse | 0.785 cm² | 0.503 cm² | 0.250 cm² |
| Beam profile | top-hat | top-hat | top-hat |
| Repetition rate | up to 10 Hz | up to 10 Hz | up to 10 Hz |
| Mass | 80 kg | 84.7 kg | 150 kg |
| Gross price | 133 497 złcatalogue price | ≈ 300 000 złestimated market value | ≈ 280 000 złestimated market value |
We checked Asclepion’s product page and two revisions of their brochure, from 2021 and 2024: the pulse energy appears in none of them, at any wavelength. The photographs of the Hollywood Spectra and the NanoStar come from Cynosure Lutronic’s and Asclepion’s press materials and remain their property. All three are manufacturers’ photographs, not renderings.
Results
Ink does not vanish after one session. It shatters into fragments the body clears over weeks, and the pace depends on depth, the tattoo’s age, and how the skin responds between sessions.
That is why two things are needed at once: a device that genuinely delivers what it shows on screen, and someone who knows what to expect after each session. We sell and service the equipment ourselves, and new Modestic Edge operators are trained by our specialists.
Doubts
Method
Hollywood Spectra, HyperSurge and IntelliBeam are trademarks of Lutronic Corporation. Cynosure is a trademark of Cynosure, LLC. NanoStar is a trademark of Asclepion Laser Technologies GmbH. The comparative information is based on materials published by the manufacturers, reviewed in August 2026. Specifications may change. If any of these figures stops matching the manufacturer’s material, write to us and we will correct it.