Canon printer leaving shadows/ghosting on text

One day this printer was working perfectly fine, just doing its thing, but now it’s out here doubling up certain letters like it has a mind of its own. I’ve already tried running the head cleaning and alignment cycles, which did absolutely nothing, and even attempting a water flush didn't help much either... You can see exactly what I mean in these photos where I circled the mess in red pen



The colors all seem to be holding up okay, it's just the black text that's acting up. It doesn't feel like a clog, it's more like a specific section of the print head just stopped cooperating entirely