Troubleshooting Pad Printing

Our pad printing specialists have collected the most often occurring problems and solutions.
Click the links for the cause and solution information.

Image does not fully release from pad…
Ink remaining on non-imaged areas of plate and printing on part as a shadow or haze…
Print is smeared or blurred…
Image is distorted on a flat part; size of image is one square inch or less…
Image is distorted on cylinder, print area less than 90º arc…
Image is distorted on a compound curved substrate…
Spots / Blotches in printed image…
Pinholes in print…
Loss of registration of multicolored image…
Printed image will not pass cross hatch tape test…
Fine detail and lines are not printing…
Not picking up full image on pad…
The print looks fuzzy or cobwebby at edges of design…
Threads and splashes…
Ink not opaque…
Ink is not printing on substrate uniformly…
Ink is not printing on substrate uniformly…
The printed image is not glossy enough…
Color does not match original color after printing…

All problems and solutions can be looked up in our Troubleshooting Brochure