u/CommonCentz4

TLDR; My experience/set up is nothing like the video walk through videos, how do you center an image on a screen, so it also centers on the pallet?

INb4; I am a total noob in terms of printing, and lasers, I am also crazy frustrated. I know my skillset is partly to blame.

I have burned through an uncomfortable amount of blanks due to prints not being centered. If I had hair I'd pull it out.

My problem of the xtool screen boundary in no way lines up to my physical print space. Every video I watch, the influencer's green boundary is inside the engravable area, that right off the rip is screwing up my centering but I thought I worked around that.

Problem is I didn't, kept being off

Now, I have labeled where I'm at. I manually marked inside the screen, I'm assuming the left and right lines may differ from x tools due to the built in "safe engrave" but that doesn't add up because my bottom boundary lines up with xtool's and i measured from the edge of the screen frame.

My top boundary does pretty much line up with my workspace, and the physical limited of my S1.

Now from my understanding the green cross is the center of the screen when using the guide jig. Which looks possibly close IRL, i didn't measure it.

But now what blows my mind is my wood pallet is centered on the screen printer itself. I placed a marker sticker on the center dot, and now my red laser marker is where that dot landed on the screen when loaded into the printer.

After watching a crazy amount of influencer videos, not a single one had to deal with any of this, or mention any of this process. Am I doing something wrong? Is my software settings off? Is there somewhere I can make this process easier?

So just got up and running this past week, I’m still sorting out some equipment issues but I think I got a decent screen and have been trying to get my first print down.

I have a host of problems and worked a couple out on cardboard and started to get some decent prints so I moved on to a couple of shirts and i can’t get this even close lol

My biggest problem is the edges of my design (all text) have barely any ink, and a second pass dumps way too much ink and causes globing. My squeegee spans the entire print and I hold it on the outsides trying to ensure enough pressure is applied to the edges.

I’m assuming it’s a technique issue but I’m not even sure how to go about fixing it, any help would be much appreciated

Edit: I’m using xTool studio from the xTool website, I got mixed up after watching so many videos and thought XCS was the name of the new one.

I just got an S1 40w and the screen printing bundle.

I'm attempting to engrave my first screen, I have installed the screen jig and placed my screen inside the S1. I noticed that my working space is lined up with the dark canvas, but my screen and the safe working space of the screen runs up and out of my canvas. Every video I watched their safe working space was inside their canvas. Did I set something up wrong? My main concern is that now my prints will not be centered on the screen.