Get rid of these little tic marks

[bboukari]

What are these tic marks? I noticed if I print uni-d, there are more of them. I can see them on both black and red, although I don't think it has anything to do with the ink color. As the red below obviously contains a little yellow, magenta and black. A complete set of the photos can be seen here. The tic marks are especially noticeable on the black part of the other photos at the link below. Also, one of the photos with the orange, you can see some banding. Any help in diagnosing this would be great.
-Bryan

 

[mopar691]

Hello and welcome.

Common cause is improper machine maintenance, crud on head, Letting your cat sleep on the warm platens, etc.

 

[bboukari]

mopar,
When you say "cat" what are you talking about? Also, what is the remedy?

 

[Stealth Ryder]

Clean the Printer, it is dirty...

 

[phxsi]

mopar,
When you say "cat" what are you talking about? Also, what is the remedy?

That was funy. Perhaps a Dog?

 

[Mosh]

Clean up! Are you using 3rd Party ink, that happened to me when I did, pretty much only in high speed printing.

 

[bsm]

dirty head

yep, get a torch and look carefully under the head and you will find a fibre that is dragging through the wet ink.

 

[Jackpine]

Looks like "fuzz" dragging on the print head.

 

[Gino]

Welcome from PA...............

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

mopar,
When you say "cat" what are you talking about? Also, what is the remedy?

Flat cat; good cat.