Need Help HP Latex 560 - Random Banding

I've had this problem with printing a lot of blue on my 360+370. I think it's an ink starvation issue.

Printing gutters, increasing the passes, and increasing the interpass delay seems to help. Like 10+ passes, 500ms delay.

It's a very annoying issue that I've only seen happen with heavy cyan use.
It's a bummer. I hope you don't have to print them quickly!

 

are you running 6 Colors? Sometimes it happens because the Lights drop out.

 

I used to get these all the time on the 370s. Sad to see it still happening on the 560. To fix I would usually just replace all the printheads.. that would fix it for us. The test plots would be fine but the printheads might be close to expire or out of warranty. If not see if you can return them? I saw it a lot in Lime greens and blues. Bright colors it seems...

We later got a Latex 1500 and they actually call out the same issue in their troubleshooting guide.

I copied that bit for you. But you can find it in the 1500 user guide.

Aeroworms
Aeroworms consist of thin bands with higher density than the surrounding area. They are about 6 cm long and have a horizontal tendency, but they tend to curve like worms. They are not continuous across the substrate, and seem to appear at random.
When the ink is being fired, there are airflow turbulences under the carriage that can affect the positioning of the drops. Therefore, some waves of ink can be formed and deposited on the substrate to create this effect.
Here are some tips for solving this problem:
● Increase the number of passes.
● Reduce the ink density.
● Check the printhead-to-ribs spacing in the Internal Print Server. If it is higher than normal, try reducing it.
● Check that the aerosol filters are not saturated or broken (see Replace the aerosol filters on page 116).

 

We print the colour bands to the left side of almost every print that we do on our HP360. Not sure if it is related to this but we have had hardly any colour drop out issues since we started doing this, before we had issues with magenta acting up. It helps runs the other colours a little.

 

We are occasionally seeing non curing problems on the newer latex printers that use optimizer rather than a heater for the printing area. High volume print shops have seen their curing heater get congestion in areas which gives you a wet banding look.
Technicians can come disassemble and clean out heater to resolve this.
You can call or text me to research any problem you may be experiencing.
Bruce 631-520-3074

 

Aeroworms-word of the day

 

According to all the "experts" here, HP Latex don't have banding problems! #fakenews