Issue With Printing

[Retire My Number]

Hi Everyone. I'm new to this board. I have a Roland TrueVis and just last week it started printing a little off. It's really only with black. Let's say I have a black box with white letters in it. The edges are all crisp but it looks like the black is lightly being dragged over the white section. It's the same on the outside edge of the box. Crisp line followed by a light amount of ink. It almost looks like a shadow. I have attached a couple images in the hopes you can see it. The photo from today also show some dots that get printed at the edge of the material.

Anyways, I've done a few manual cleans this past week and that isn't helping. Any thoughts as to what it could be? Maybe there is something else that needs a cleaning that I am missing

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[weyandsign]

What material are you printing on? What are the dots to the right of the red line?? What settings are you using?

 

[Retire My Number]

The material is a 13oz double sided blockout banner. The dots to the right of the red line are part of the design so they aren't an issue. I'll look what the setting is but I've been printing constantly for a couple years on the same setting so I don't think that is the issue.

 

[victor bogdanov]

If you've been printing for a couple of years on that machine that could be a sign of an aging printhead.

 

[weyandsign]

Does this happen on other materials?