DOTS ON THE SOLID COLORS

[Jose Angel Hernandez]

WHEN I PRINT SOLID COLORS LIKE YELLOW, IT DOESNT LOOK SOLID YELLOW, LOOKS LIKE DOTS ON IT. LIKE FACES OR GRADIENTS, ANY IDEA ? THANKS ON ADVANCE

 

[signage]

post an example of your print

 

[Jose Angel Hernandez]

post an example of your print

hope you can notice the dots, like blurry, no matter how good the resolution is. my printer is a Ricoh L-4160 latex

 

[jimmmi]

On hp latex this happens because of bad material. Plasticizer issue. I dont know if the same happens Ricoh. Try wiping with Isopropyl alcohol the half width of the material and print something to full width. Curious if happens the same

 

[signage]

Is this a vector or raster file used to print

 

[Jose Angel Hernandez]

the media is brand new, is a jpg file, that i printed with flexi

 

[Geneva Olson]

it could be your maintenance kit. If it's at 20% it might be that. It could be your optimizer print head or it could be any of your printheads. I went through this scenario summer of 2020. The maintenance kit ended up needing replacing at 20% left to go. I did replace all of the printheads as well. You can check to see if the print heads are going out.

 

[Geneva Olson]

hope you can notice the dots, like blurry, no matter how good the resolution is. my printer is a Ricoh L-4160 latex

I don't know if ricoh has a maintenance kit but that's where all the extra ink runs into. do you have an optimizer print head?

 

[Gino]

Just looks like p!ss-poor files. How much did you hafta blow it up ?? The black is about the only solid color I see and it doesn't look all that bad.

 

[Johnny Best]

.jpg that is not a good file. Make some solid blocks of color, red, green, blue and black and run them to see if your printer needs maintenance on it. If the blocks of color come out good it's your print file.

 

[Gino]

Are you using the correct profile for the media you're using ??

 

[Joe House]

Looks like the calibrations are off to me, but I don't know the Ricoh printers at all.

 

[Pauly]

looks like someone has over sharpened the image on the file.

 

[Joe House]

Have you tried another known good image? Does it do the same thing?

 

[Jose Angel Hernandez]

thank you everyone, we found out thet need very good cleaning and flushing the nazzles, thanks a lot