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