Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuz a print

[jimbug72]

Had a banner catch and wad up under the carriage while printing last week on our HP 315. We've been having quality issues since. I've run some head cleanings, and the the automatic head alignment. The "print all test plots" cleared up a good bit after all of those, with some banding on the #6 head (yellow/magenta) so I've ordered a new one. The few things that we've printed since have been a little fuzzy but mostly passable for what they were. Printed this one this morning and it was so fuzzy it wouldn't read the barcode.

Any ideas on what I need to do to correct this would be greatly appreciated.

T.I.A.

 

[balstestrat]

Try cleaning the OMAS, that small lens on the platen. Your substrate is not advancing correctly.

 

[Boudica]

Could the unfortunate event somehow raised the head height? I'm not familiar with that printer, but I see this "effect" when i have the head raised too high - overspray I think

 

[balstestrat]

Could the unfortunate event somehow raised the head height? I'm not familiar with that printer, but I see this "effect" when i have the head raised too high - overspray I think

No. You know it's nothing to do with it because the image is sharp in the carriage movement direction.

 

[ddarlak]

Is there fibers stuck under the carriage, did you pull the heads out and look/clean?

 

[jimbug72]

Update: Starting getting a warning message on the touch screen about head alignment. Ran the automatic head alignment process again and it seems to have cleared up the issue.