1. Equipment and Materials

1.1 Printing Materials

1.2 Printing Ink

Selectable Ink Types: Ink Types Supported by xTool Screen Printer - xTool Support Center

1.3 Printing Substrate

Types of Substrates and Printing Characteristics

It is recommended that the screen mesh count be matched with the ink characteristics for application on the corresponding substrate.

1.4 Adaptation of Processing Equipment

Adapt to Processing Mode: Process on Flat Surface

xTool P2 Series

2. Preparation before processing

2.1 Wearing Protective Equipment

It is recommended to connect the device's smoke exhaust pipe to an outdoor ventilation area.

When operating equipment for processing, a mask must be worn.

When processing equipment, if there is a need for exposed light emission, appropriate laser safety goggles for the corresponding laser wavelength must be worn.

2.2 The two mesh types currently sold by XTOOL:

2.3 Comparison of CO2 Processing Between Polyester Screen and Coated Screen

2.4 Install the screen onto the screen frame

Polyester Screen Installation Document;

Polyester Screen Installation Video;

2.5 Is it necessary to remove the base plate

Small-sized screen frame: can be directly placed into the processing area after removing the knife strip.

[Knife Strip Removal Diagram] [Small Net Frame Placement Diagram].

Large screen frame: The blade bar must be removed simultaneously and placed into the Riser Base to prevent the screen frame from affecting the movement and processing of the laser head.

Document Guidance.

3. Common Problems and Solutions

3.1 How to Determine the Processing Side of the Screen

For the Coated Screen sold by XTOOL, place it with the side covered with white masking paper facing up, and the side adhered to corrugated cardboard facing down. The side facing up is the surface to be processed by the laser head.

3.2 Post-processing Phenomena

When processing with CO₂, the coated screen is neither cut nor engraved, and there is no occurrence of stencil wires being melted or broken.

The coated layer on the surface of the stencil will be scraped off by laser engraving, and changes in power will affect the effectiveness of removing the surface coating.

Please use the recommended parameters for processing, and perform printing on the processed mesh board. The printing result is very clear.

3.3 Avoiding Abnormal Issues

Please use the single-pass scanning mode for processing.

Please clean the laser head and the machine base plate promptly.

Please process using the recommended parameters.

3.4 Screen Ink Cleaning

The screen plate with the carved pattern can be repeatedly printed after carving the pattern:

After using one color for printing, you can moisten and soak the original ink with an ink thinner, then rinse the softened ink with tap water. After wiping off any dirt and water stains, you can use another color to print the engraved pattern again.

After carving the pattern, the mesh plate cannot be processed by scraping off the entire surface coating and then recoating the surface:

The coating thickness of the resurfaced surface is different from the original, so the existing recommended parameters cannot be applied.

The re-coated surface material may differ from the previous one and may not be compatible with the existing recommended parameters.