Can you attach a picture of what you're talking about?

Unfortunately no, trash pick up has since happened (last week). I was so disgusted with it, and at the waste of it, that I just rolled it all in a heap and tossed it all in the garbage and got it out of sight/out of my sewing room - 3 yards of each. It was totally unusable.

I just couldn't get it out of my head and had to post about it.

to picture it in minds eye, think of where the color print is touching on the thread and think of the inked thread slightly bulging outward above the rest of the fabric surface as if it was wet.

The Kaufmann fabric I have that is digitally printed looks like the backside of any other name fabric. I compare it to Moda and Free Spirit. Maybe different manufactures do it differently. I know Spoonflower fabric is not as nice as I thought it would be.

I'm really sorry this happened to you. I haven't noticed it on any of the digitals (almost all Hoffman) that I have....yet.
I really don't have many.
It almost sounds like the fabric is being pulled through a printing machine of some sort on sprockets...the sprockets doing damage as the fabric gets pulled through.
And buying online as I have done makes it impossible to see any snags before buying.
:(

too bad....I sure like the bright intense colors that they have when new.

Just lost my reply to this thread, so trying again.

If you search online, there are a staggering number of companies now printing digital fabric. Guessing that the printers are becoming less expensive. That doesn't mean all of them do it well.

I recently ordered a lot of repro Marcus Fabrics online, only to find they were all digital. No mention was made of it beforehand. So, when I saw "Ellie" by Brenda Riddle, someone whose designs and personal qualities I greatly admire, I decided to contact her to see if it was digital. I didn't really think she'd write back, but she did!

Afterward, I asked if I could pass it on to the Quilting Board, and she agreed. Hope it's helpful.

"Thank you for your kind words. They mean so much!

As for the fabrics - (& all Moda fabrics) - they are not digital prints on fabric. They are printed one color at a time, either by screen printing or engraved onto rollers (depending on the print). I know that there are some fabric sources (like Spoonflower) that do use digital printing because of the nature of their businesses… but Moda does it the old fashioned way - where the fabrics are created in fabric mills.

Hope that helps & answers your question!

xo, Bren"