# Can This Simple UV Printing Project Make $132 an Hour?

- Link: https://createdworkshop.com/videos/uv-printed-farkle-dice-tray
- Published: 2026-08-16T04:45:37-05:00
- Author: Patrick Campanale

I turned a laser-safe leatherette folding tray into a full-color Farkle dice tray
on the xTool O1 Omni. I cleaned up the artwork with xTool Studio’s contiguous cutout
control, sized it for the center of the tray, and printed flexible white under the
color.

The print took about eight and a half minutes and roughly six cents of ink. The 
graphic came out clean, but one corner of the tray lifted off my well-used adhesive
bed and caused a print-head strike.

So, lesson learned: tape flexible blanks down on all four sides. I’d also keep at
least one spare blank on hand for customer work, so a failed print doesn’t turn 
into a delayed order, an apology, and a wait for replacement material.

With about $8 in tray and dice materials and a $30 selling price, making six in 
an hour works out to a theoretical $132 an hour. I treat that as a pricing model,
not guaranteed profit, because setup, failed pieces, inventory, and a repeatable
way to hold the blank all have to be accounted for.