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Common Printing Defects

The document discusses common printing defects that can occur such as flushing, bleeding, misfits, stick-ins, scrimps, banding, unwanted pigment marking, mottled defects, cracks or misalignments, printing machine stops, and color outs. Potential causes of these defects are then provided such as low viscosity print paste, improper screen alignment, fibers stuck in screens, fabric creasing under screens during printing, uneven substrate advancement or screen alignment, damaged or improperly exposed screens, uneven color application, incomplete transfer during printing, and running low on dye in the printing machine reservoirs.

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Common Printing Defects

The document discusses common printing defects that can occur such as flushing, bleeding, misfits, stick-ins, scrimps, banding, unwanted pigment marking, mottled defects, cracks or misalignments, printing machine stops, and color outs. Potential causes of these defects are then provided such as low viscosity print paste, improper screen alignment, fibers stuck in screens, fabric creasing under screens during printing, uneven substrate advancement or screen alignment, damaged or improperly exposed screens, uneven color application, incomplete transfer during printing, and running low on dye in the printing machine reservoirs.

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Common Printing Defects/Faults | Causes of Printing

Defects

Printing Defects:
The defects which occurred in printing process are given below:


Printed defects fabric
1. Flushing/Wicking
2. Bleeding
3. Misfits
4. Stick-ins
5. Scrimps
6. Banding
7. Unwanted pigment marking on Fabric
8. Mottled
9. Crack or Miss Alignment in Transfer Printed Fabric
10. Printing Machine Stop
11. Color out

The causes of these defects are enlisted below:

1. Flushing/Wicking:
Caused due to Low viscosity of print paste.

It occurs when the printed area bleeds out into the unprinted area. The result is a
haloing or shadowing effect around the outline of the pattern design.

2. Bleeding:
Caused due to Low viscosity of print paste

It is major defect as it happens throughout the fabric unless the viscosity is corrected.

3. Misfits:
A misfit is a print defect caused by improper alignment of the screens. Also known as
out of registration, misfits leave unprinted areas in the design.

For example, a green leaf may overlap its black outline or print over another color.

4. Stick-ins:
A stick-in occurs when a small fiber or piece of lint gets stuck in the screen opening.

The result is a small unprinted circle in the design. A stick-in is very difficult to see and
often goes unnoticed during a long run.

5. Scrimps :
A scrimp defect occurs when the fabric creases underneath one of the screens during
the printing process.

The pattern is then printed on top of the crease, leaving a large unprinted area when the
fabric returns to its relaxed state.

6. Banding:
Defect created by the print heads movement over the substrate.

Use of scanning print head, or a print head that moves back and forth across the
substrate in straight line placing drops of ink at precise locations along the line.

If the head is not properly aligned, or if the substrate advances unevenly, the result is a
slight horizontal band or line of unprinted area.

7. Unwanted pigment marking on Fabric:
Caused due to screen has holes in it that should have been covered. This could be
because of ageing of the screen and eventual damage or just improper exposure to
light.

8. Mottled :
Color applied unevenly during printing.

9. Crack or Miss Alignment in Transfer Printed Fabric :
Incomplete transfer of design from paper to fabric on transfer printing due to removal of
transfer of paper while the fabric was still hot.

10. Printing Machine Stop:
As a result of printing machine stop the dye sometimes is smudged along the width of
the fabric.

11. Color out:
The result of color running low in reservoir on printing machine.


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