: What is the reason for these weird white shadows on a printed shirt? There are some textures applied to the design, to make it look distressed. The effects are transparent and should "blend"

@Rivera951

It was probably printed in white first and then in black over it. This is usually done to print light colors on dark shirts and still have them appear bright. In case of printing black it's obviously unnecessary.

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@Miguel516

If this is thermal transfer printing then it will look like this on any shirt that is not either white or black. And each one of them require different transfer film for that particular color. This white noise would be not noticeable on white shirt but on grey it is visible.

The way to solve this would be to not use any other way of blending apart from black to 0. Think of using a stencil more then printing a gradient.

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@Si6392903

I'm sorry but It is not clear what the problem is. Take a new photo without the flash, stand next to a window without direct sunlight. I do not know if I am seeing reflections, if the shirt has a white base.

But a basic problem could be that the worker did not apply enough ink, or pre-spreaded the ink into the silk even and smooth.

I am stealing this comment from Cai: "It looks like a white base and either a problem applying the ink or a problem in curing"

A list of problems could be:


The ink is contaminated and do not stick properly (missuse of solvents, old ink)
The operator did not spreaded the ink evenly or did not performed a pre-pass.
The ink is not compatible with the base ink (if there is one)
The ink did not cured properly (solvent related, humidity, temperature)
Wrong mesh, the mesh is too tight for the thickness of the ink.

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