Bleeding, halo effects, uneven penetration, and color-to-color bleeding in multi-color prints usually come down to paste rheology, screen/roller condition, or curing profile mismatch — not the pigment itself.
Viscosity built for one printing method rarely transfers cleanly to another — a paste tuned for flat-bed screen can fail entirely on a rotary line.
Too little binder underbonds pigment to the fiber; too much stiffens handle and can itself cause surface cracking — the ratio is construction-specific.
Under-curing leaves pigment poorly bonded (fastness and bleed issues); over-curing can scorch or stiffen the fabric — both come from the same root, a miscalibrated cure profile.
Weave density and yarn type change how paste penetrates and spreads — a formulation validated on one construction can bleed or halo on another.
A paste that performs on a flat-bed screen can fail entirely on a rotary line. We check rheology and curing against your specific equipment and fabric construction before any reformulation — the fix is often a process adjustment, not a new paste.
Flat-bed screen, rotary screen, and digital printing each demand different paste rheology — the fix depends entirely on which one you're running.
Nameplate settings and actual in-line conditions often diverge — we ask for measured, not assumed, cure parameters before diagnosing.
Flushing, or wicking, is when a printed area spreads into the unprinted area around it, creating a haloing effect at the edge of the design — usually from low print paste viscosity. Bleeding is when one applied colour migrates into a colour or coating applied afterward.
A misfit happens when the screens used for each colour aren't properly aligned, leaving unprinted gaps or one colour overlapping another's outline. It's a mechanical registration issue, not a paste or pigment issue.
A doctor mark is a parallel line running across the fabric, caused by a damaged or improperly set doctor blade — the metal blade that scrapes excess paste off the printing roller so dye stays only in the engraved pattern areas.
Uneven printing shows up as gaps or tone differences through the design, usually from an improperly prepared screen or a squeegee run with inconsistent pressure across the print width.
