Troubleshooting Guide - Pressroom Conventional
On Press Issue: Picking/Linting
Potential Causes
Too much water reaching paper
Solution: Reduce dampener setting for proper performance.
Paper surface contains trash, coating duet, or trimmer dust
Solution: Make tape pulls from the blanket for analysis. Consult paper manufacturer.
Substrate isn't resistent to picking
Solution: If picking is serious, reject substrate and change to a more pick-resistent substrate.
Impression pressure set too high for ink/substrate combination
Solution: Reduce impression pressure, repack to manufacturer specifications.
Blanket is in poor condition
Solution: Change to a less tacky/quick release blanket. Check blanket wash, may be attacking blanket surface and making it tacky.
