Can you cut and etch colored acrylic with a diode laser?

I ordered a variety pack of acrylic with 6 colored sheets of 3mm acrylic. I wanted to see if we could cut through it and etch on it. Each color is going to react differently to the blue laser. We will find what works and write that down somewhere. ;-)

I have tried doing this with clear and white acrylic and found it just doesn't work well at all. I did not show any of that work in this video. The diode laser beam goes right through the clear acrylic and no burning happens unless you put something on there first that will absorb the laser power and start the melting. This allows us to at least etch on the clear. I used the same method I use with glass and started to get some parameters that work.

Here is a link to the package I purchase: https://amzn.to/47a782c
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