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POD prints peel, fade or wash off after a few washes

Print-on-demand shirts and hats lose ink or fade after a few washes, so customers return them and stop reordering.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

6 public reports · first reported 31 May 2018 · last reported 20 December 2023

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Sellers using two different print-on-demand apps report that finished shirts and hats fail once customers wash them.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 6 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.