Abstract: Processing head (1) for a laser engraving or cutting apparatus, especially for processing stamp plates, which is provided with an enclosed housing in which the processing head is moveable in a controlled manner relative to a base supporting the workpiece, the processing head being provided with a hood (6) connected to a dust suction device and terminating at a distance from the surface of the workpiece, the processing head being provided with at least two gas blow nozzles (7,8) one of the gas blow nozzles (7) being directed at an angle toward the vertically impinging laser beam (L), the other gas blow nozzle (8) which is also inclined at an angle relative to the laser beam (L) is directed toward a point (P′) of the surface of the workpiece spaced from the impinging site (P) of the laser beam.