3880 banded gloss optimizer and bizarre nozzle check

InkjetMall Customer Support Printer Maintenance & Cartridges
1

From QTR, prints are fine.
Second pass for GO coats the print but also gray ink bands.
If you run a nozzle check the cyan output is, well, odd.
Not clogged but excess information…

3880, old style large cartridges ,

K-7 MPS

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2

This is very weird. I suggest you update the firmware and test again.

-W

3

It has worked for years…
All of a sudden this is what I’m getting…

4

It really looks like some sort of NVRAM or Firmware corruption to me. Something possibly in the head control board even that is determining voltage to the head.

-W