Insufficient or uneven covering white
Medium severitySymptoms
Zones where color looks more metallic than others; white looking grey or translucent
Probable causes
- Single white pass with insufficient opacity
- white not formulated as covering
- thin film
The Print Guy · 2026-10-05
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