Patrick turns a laser-safe leatherette folding tray into a full-color Farkle dice tray with the xTool O1 Omni. The artwork is cleaned up with xTool Studio’s contiguous cutout control, then sized for the center of the tray and printed with flexible white ink beneath the color layer.
The print takes roughly eight and a half minutes and uses about six cents of ink. Although the graphic itself comes out clean, one corner of the flexible tray lifts from the adhesive bed and causes a print-head strike, turning the project into an important setup lesson.
Patrick explains that flexible blanks should be taped securely on all four sides rather than trusted to a well-used adhesive mat. He also recommends keeping at least one spare blank for customer work so a failed attempt does not immediately become a delayed order, an apology, and a replacement-material wait.
Using about $8 in tray and dice materials and a proposed $30 selling price, the example reaches a theoretical $132 per production hour when six can be completed in an hour. Patrick treats that as a useful pricing model rather than guaranteed profit, with the real takeaway being to account for setup, failed pieces, inventory, and a repeatable holding method.