Ray,

You're using a six-color printer. How do the nozzle checks, for those six colors look?

Here's a past thread, which although "banding" was the primary issue, also had to do with color issues and nozzle checks:

http://www.engravingetc.org/forum/index.php?webtag=EE&msg=3642.1

David "The Stunt Engraver" Lavaneri
DGL Engraving
Port Hueneme, CA