One artist I know, Tim Boor, uses both the Hawk and NeoTat machines. I have watched him do amazing detail with his hawk machine, but a little slow compared to when he uses my machines. One thing i think is cool about the Hawk is the way you can change out the cartridge on the fly, so if you only have one machine you can change out your needle cartridges easily back and forth between groupings.
The cartridges are still expensive, but not as bad as they used to be......not that I'm promoting the Hawk, but I do think it's cool.
Anyways, Hawk's parent company really does not like me.....just because I have stolen a number of their permanent cosmetic trainers away from them.....sorry Nouveau