Magenta bleeding into yellow

[Mosh]

Cap station? sp-300V, I think that is what I did last time...dampers are good, yellow is yellow in it. Any help would be cool.

 

[Ragnabrok]

yup, cap station likely, the only place the ink can merge is after the print head (or in it if it's REALLY broken). If not that cap itself, the drain lines being obstructed, or the heads not seating on the caps centered enough can cause it as well.

 

[player]

Another factor can be if one ink cartridge is full and the other is almost empty.

 

[get canvas uk]

New head solved it for me

Hi, i had this so changed the caps but still the same so I changed the dx4 head. The head had gone and both colours were merging

 

[BigfishDM]

Might be a broken wall inside the head, that's worst case scenario.

 

[petepaz]

Might be a broken wall inside the head, that's worst case scenario.

probably this. had the same thing and replaced the dampers and capping station (always want to try replacing the least expensive parts first ) but turned out it was the head.
it happened to our XC-540 but basically all the same parts

 

[jfiscus]

If the pumps aren't working or there is a clog in the line going from the caps to the pump you can get this problem.
I would take off the capping station/pump parts and clean all the caps, lines, etc well.

I would bet that it is NOT a bad head.