SP-300i red & black bleed together

[Darkside]

Trying to figure out why my SP-300i is bleeding the black and red together on prints. The attached image is printed in standard quality. It clears up a little in high quality. Machine is about 5 years old and gets used and cleaned regularly. Any ideas?

 

[P Wagner]

That image shows clear evidence of over-inking of the media (note the areas of shiny black ink). When you lay down more ink than the media can quickly handle/ dry, you are prone to this type of inter-color bleed.

To stop this, you would need to either restrict the amount of ink, and/ or raise the temperatures on the printer to more quickly remove the liquid solvents in the ink. This will allow the ink drops to set and not interact (coalesce) with the adjacent drops of ink.

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[Darkside]

Thank you!

 

[Fatboy]

To much Black. Did you print from PDF?

 

[Darkside]

No. EPS file out of Illustrator to Versaworks.