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Question posted by laps2soar on January 24th, 2012

Printing Problem

My printer has been fine but I tried to print an email today and couldn't get it to print clearly. It came out very light and from the color cartridge instead of the black.  I did a test page and it seems fine. How do you know if you are low in ink or if there is another problem?

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