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