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Question posted by Marciakuntz on March 27th, 2012

After Installing New Ink The Print Is Faint & Some Colors Are Not Printing. Help

After installing new ink cartridges for all colors the print comes ot faint and some colors like red & orange coming out as light yellow and light pink. Completed a Print head alignment with no errors. Any idea what I can try next? It was working just fine before I installed the new cartridges.

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