misclean
A defect in printing fabric that arises from improperly cleaning the rollers that apply the ink, leaving unintended marks on the fabric.
Noun
- A defect in printing fabric that arises from improperly cleaning the rollers that apply the ink, leaving unintended marks on the fabric.
- Defects are commonly of great variety and are described as holes, missing color, oil, white scrimp, misclean, out of fit (where the pattern is out of line), grey black scrimp, snap, stick in, hair line, color streak,...
- On the next day, another misclean of approximately 750 yards was discovered on Gregory's machine while no one was in attendance at his post. - 1955, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of...
Origin
From mis- + clean.
Forms
Verb
- To clean improperly.
- No amount of pre-evaluation that we can carry out will completely avoid or prevent customer complaints because for every kind of consumer use we can forecase the actual consumer can find many more ways of straining,...
- In an indoor environment, areas that are more out of site, such as those below or above certain home furniture, are often miscleaned for a long period. - 2013 November, Youcef Shahali, Andrea Brazdova, Michel Calleja,...
- Was it the sealant supplier who sold a product that hardened too much with age, or was it the applicator who miscleaned or poorly primed the joint that led to the adhesive failure? - 2017, Jerome Klosowski, Sealants in...