Sheetfed Inks - A Free Troubleshooting Flowchart and Guide

Flint Group offers a free troubleshooting guide to identify common problems that can arise during sheetfed printing. This document is an easy-to-use resource for the diagnosis and, more importantly, the solution, to these printing challenges.

Download the Sheetfed Inks Troubleshooting Guide as a PDF.

Please note: This troubleshooting guide is most applicable for sheetfed printing in North America, Latin America and India/Pacific. Printers in Europe, Middle East and Africa can contact info@eu.flintgrp.com for regionally-customised assistance.

Inside, you'll find tips to resolve the following sheetfed printing concerns:

• Back trap mottle
• Backing, ink in fountain
• Chalking
• Crystallization
• Dot Sharpness
• Double Image
• Drying
• Faded Colour
• Ghosting, Gloss
• Ghosting, Mechanical
• Gloss, Poor
• Gray and Weak Solids
• Hickies, with Center
• Hickies, no Center
• Inconsistant Colour Reproduction
• Ink/Water Balance
• Mileage
• Mottled Solids
• Muddy Halftones
• Picking/Linting
• Piling
• Plate Blinding - Chemical
• Plate Blinding - Mechanical
• Plate Wear
• Register
• Roller Stripping
• Rubbing and Scuffing
• Scumming
• Set-off/Blicking
• Slinging
• Slurred Image
• Tinting/Toning
• Trapping