xTool has just published a statement in their community about the O1 Omni, the UV printer that has been anticipated since January. The title says almost everything: good news, and an apology. The machine is not arriving when they said it would.
Since we recently canceled another UV printer after half a year of shifting dates, this statement interests us more for how it’s written than for what it announces. Let’s read it carefully.
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What it says, in short
The date they were aiming for was the second quarter. The new one is July-August, and they explicitly say they are doing everything possible to make it July. Shipments would start shortly after the launch, which will be on their website.
And then comes the interesting part: four sections explaining where the time went. Not a “we’re finalizing details,” but four fronts with names and specifics.
1. The alignment
They say they are developing a precision alignment system “first of its kind in the industry,” designed to go beyond the camera positioning we’re used to, and add that this same technology should improve alignment on curved objects with the rotary accessory.
They acknowledge this has been the technically most demanding part of the project.
Translated to the workshop: alignment is the real problem of printing on objects. You place a piece on the tray and the machine has to know exactly where it is and at what height, or the ink will be misaligned. If the piece is curved, it also has to know how the surface moves away from the print head. Anyone who has tried printing on a glass knows that’s where the work gets lost. That they delayed the machine because of this makes sense; that they say it, even more so.
2. The inks for the dual head
They confirm the machine uses a dual-head system —this was already known— and that this opens the door to more ink options. The price of that door is validation: compatibility between inks, aging, and long-term stability.
This is the part of the statement we like the most because it sells the least. Ink that works on day one but sediments by the third month is a problem the buyer discovers late and alone. That a brand says “we’re testing how they age” is exactly what you want to hear, even if it means waiting.
What the statement does not say, and it’s important not to assume: which specific inks will be in each configuration, nor how many configurations there will be. For now, we only know there are two heads and that it offers flexibility.
3. Print + cut with xTool lasers
This is where we got out of our chairs.
They say they don’t want the Omni to be “just another device” for those who already have their machines, and that they are developing workflows that connect the printer with their lasers: print, and have the laser cut exactly where it should. And they give a concrete detail: compatibility with the P3 is already completed. With the P2 and P2S, and with the M, S, and F series, they are still testing.
Our production laser is exactly a P3 [xTool EU], so we are the exact case they describe. And it’s the workflow we’re most interested in for the whole machine, because the bottleneck of printing and cutting is not printing or cutting: it’s making the two match. Anyone who has manually aligned a printed sheet on the laser bed, looking for registration marks, knows how much time and material is lost there.
That said, it’s a promise. The brand says it, we haven’t seen it work, and until we see it with our pieces it’s a pending box.
4. The accessories
The fourth section is the most specific, and therefore the most credible. They say they found, through testing, vibration —“jitter”— in the rotary accessory and compatibility problems of the roll laminator with different film tensions. They acknowledge these seem like small details but are noticeable in real work, and that’s why they are dedicating more optimization before launch.
A vibrating rotary prints double outlines. A laminator that doesn’t get along with film tension wrinkles your work right at the end, after you’ve already spent ink and time. These are failures that, if released, would ruin a machine’s reputation in a month.
Why this statement leaves us calm
A delay is a delay, and anyone who had plans for June is out of luck. But let’s compare.
The wait we canceled in January was a succession of new dates without explanation. We never knew what was failing, and therefore never could judge if the delay was reasonable or if the product was worse than they said. When you’re not given reasons, you can only believe or stop believing.
This is different: four concrete problems, two of them unglamorous (ink aging, accessory vibration), a new date limited to two months, and the commitment to keep publishing updates from beta testers and real samples in the meantime. You can disagree, but there’s something to judge.
That they also admit they are “later than previously shared” and apologize for it doesn’t fix anyone’s schedule, but it sets a tone.
What we still don’t know
So we don’t get carried away with enthusiasm, here’s the list of what remains unknown as of today:
- The price. Neither of the machine nor the ink.
- What configurations there will be and how they differ.
- What the head costs and how long it lasts, which in a printer is the part that decides if the business is profitable.
- Real speed per piece, which separates a catalog product from a trade show demo.
- The actual date. July-August is an intention, not a delivery note.
We still haven’t spent a euro. We watch, take notes, and wait for a spec sheet, price, and —above all— machines working outside the brand. When that happens, we’ll report here with numbers.
Update from July 28, 2026
Two months later, the promise can be compared with the schedule. Summary: it didn’t come out in July.
What did happen on July 16 was the launch and final payment: public spec sheet, prices, and collection of the balance. Shipments, no.
The clearest official data came from xTool support on July 25, responding in their subreddit to someone who couldn’t find the delivery date of their order. Literally: shipments start in August and are served progressively, and the order depends on when the final payment was completed, the destination country, the chosen version and package, and production and inventory. With a warning worth reading twice: shipments starting in August does not mean everyone receives the machine at the same time.
The community still doesn’t quite believe it. The official group is already talking about September, some are betting directly on October —arguing that this leaves out the Christmas campaign— and the most cited UV-DT version orders talk about end of October.
And a warning, because it’s being repeated incorrectly: August 15 circulating is not a shipping date. It’s the last day of the pre-sale price; after that, it goes up. These are different things and it’s important not to confuse them when deciding whether to pay now.
What has also changed is our position. The phrase above —“we still haven’t spent a euro”— expired: we have paid for a Dual UV Versatile and are in the same queue as everyone else. So this is no longer analysis from the sidelines. What we said in May about reading statements carefully still holds, and that conclusion —“July-August is an intention, not a delivery note”— has aged better than we would have liked.
Written by Noemi and Javi, from Picasita. We are xTool affiliates and our workshop is a brand demonstration space; we buy our machines with our own money. More about this blog and our relationship with xTool.
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