Need Help mimaki cjv150-160 majenta dusting

I have no idea if this will help, but I had a problem with all my colours having what looked like an over spray and went through everything to try and fix it. In the end it was a build up of debris being dragged across the freshly printed graphics. On the right side of the carriage underneath there are these 3 black plastic tabs that hang down. I found what can only be described as a large lint ball stuck to one. Problem solved.

 

100% head failure unfortunately

 

Damage to nozzle surface, possible head strike on media

 

I have to agree with above. The head surface looks like it has dragged across media a bunch of times, has one fairly large scratch along the whole surface, and it looks like the wiper isn't doing a great job at cleaning the surface.

 

Head surface looks horrible but you do have most of your nozzles on your test print. Try lowering the carriage to the low position and then re-run drop.pos. Then run a file using un-directional. Let us know what that looks like!

 

Might look slightly better but still going to get overspray on magenta and banding in the print. If you want it looking perfect it’s a new print head.