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L25500 ink not drying

I printed about 25 feet of 3M 680CR reflective today, and I noticed the ink wasn't fully dry on the left side of the prints. It seemed like the beginning of the print was fine, but then after the first 1-2 feet the left side black areas were pretty oily. I am running 30" material on a 42" machine, so the area that was giving me issues was about 1/2-3/4 of the way over as far as the printing area goes. I am running the heat at 55 degrees Celsius drying, and 118 curing. The profile is 10 pass, bidirectional, low ink, 40 speed. Flexi is the rip.
 
Increase the airflow. I forget what the exact setting is. The older models got areas where the air wasn't properly flowing so humidity stays high in certain areas of the machine as well as cooling down those certain areas. After about 1.5 years we started having similar issues on the same machine and had to start bumping up the airflow on all medias. Just can't remember exactly what it is but it's right under your temps and vaccum.
 
I'll go in and check but I'm pretty sure the "heat airflow" setting is maxed out at 45 by default for this profile. Ill see what options I can find to adjust it
 
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