PIXMA mx922 prints blurry.

Our PIXMA mx922 prints blurry.  I have already cleaned the encoding strip.   When I print a black and white text document. some lines on a printed document are sharp and crisp, while others are faint and blurry.  These crisp and blurry lines alternate all the way down the page.  When I print a mixed color and black text document (such as a screen capture of this current page), the color sections are sharp but the black ink sections are blurry as mentioned previously. The blurry text almost looks like a double image of the letters. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Encoder strip would be the big culprint here.
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