Originally Posted by
datlas
Anyone know printer technology?? Our printer won’t print black despite cleaning our printer head with alcohol and putting in new ink cartridge. Colors print ok. Printer is HP-6520 about 3-4 years old I think not worth trying to fix but mrs datlas thinks we should take it somewhere for repair. Thoughts/advice??
Ugh. I started printing photos at Costco because I didn't want to deal with ink costs and plugged print heads any more.
Did you print out a diagnostic page? And did you run the internal head cleaning in addition to wiping it?