mankind digital offers an innovative patent-pending technology for glass etching with UV LED printing the first step to etching glass with your UV LED printer is to print the stencil on the piece of glass with firebird UV LED flex ink next lightly wipe off the glass to clear any ink misting that may have settled into the area to be etched also be sure to wear gloves for the rest of this process now apply your desired matching solution to the glass according to the directions listed on your product of choice commercially available ashing products such as armor etch can be directly applied to the desired glass surface to be etched wait the appropriate amount of time for your action solution to etch the glass we waited about four minutes with our barrage then with warm water rinse the glass lightly scrub the Flex ink stencil with your fingers until the stencil is completely removed from the glass Firebird inks patent-pending technology is formulated to be water soluble which is designed to be easily removed with water once your glass is dry you will see your final product and will have successfully patch glass with your UV LED printer you