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I print at least once a month. I have never tried shaking the cartridges. Would that help if the ink is just expired? Both of those were only expired by 3-4 months.

Wow. You all are amazing. This totally fixed my issue. I am able to print exactly the blue I was looking for and a red I have never been able to hit in the past. Thank you very much. Lesson learned. If you have expired inks then replace them. If you don't then you will end up using 40 ml...

Here are the results of the different tests. The yellow is extremely hard to see but it is there. All of the heads look like they line up perfectly. The color calibration chart looks fine to me but it did before, the cyan just was not near as dark now that I compare it to an older one. I'm...

I will post what you all requested above in just a bit. I am still running tons of ink through it. So far I have ran about 33ml of magenta and 39ml of cyan (since both were expired and replaced) and YES it is making a huge difference. It does look like the problem was just the expired ink...

OK. I'll switch to a cheaper media run though a ton of ink and see if anything changes. As a test, I decided to create a new file with Corel Draw to eliminate Flex from the issue list. Obviously my white point is way off with my camera. From top to bottom this is my profile that is...

Wow. Your blues look amazing compared to mine. Yes, my cyan was expired before. Do you think if I run a long run of 4-5' of solid cyan it will push it through faster? I have no idea how much ink is in those lines. What RIP are you using? It looks like your gamut goes from a dark center to...

No, the machine is not heavily used at all. I think latex can come out of suspension but the cyan is brand new and I always shake the cartridges before installation. I will give it a try though. I'll shake them all and print a test again. Thanks for the suggestion.

1) All of the tests on the printer show everything to be working correctly. i.e. Alignment tests are fine, no banding, no bleeding, no blurring. 2) My printheads are out of warranty but none of them have a ton of ink through them. They all test fine but they do have some clogged nozzles: In...

Your absolutely right. In order to get above 120% I had to create a blacklit profile. It will now allow me to go to 200%. I reprofiled with 150% and there was not to much difference. I went ahead and bumped it up to 200% and there is a little more of a difference. Still does not seem like I...

12p is limited to 110, 16p is limited to 120, 20p is limited to 120. Only thing I can think is that I have a print head issue. They don't show that many clogs but there really isn't much else it could be.

Even on the printer I cannot find anywhere that will let me go past 120%. Could this be a limitation of the printer or am I just missing something?

Flexi won't let me push the ink limit past 100%. I'll try on Onyx or directly on the profile on the printer and see what happens. Thank you.

I have it set at 100% ink load because I don't get any blurring. Do you mean more passes? This profile is 10p. I recreated it with 20 passes on a generic profile and my test prints look the same.

I have a HP Latex 115. I have struggled with printing blue with this thing since day one. These are the colors I get with my current ICC profile: I know CMYK is limited with blues but I have seen some pictures of people printing with HP Latex inks that some decent blues. Does this color...