HP 6500 all in one not printing in black and cartridge is full

my printer suddenly stopped printing in black, all other colors come out fine. The carriage moves as though it is printing, but the page is blank, where black text should be. I have cleaned and aligned the print heads several times. This occurred after an HP tech uninstalled and reinstalled my HP software and drivers. Prior to this had problems on and off, but it was easy to run print and scan to repair it. Now print and scan says they find no problem with the printer.

Hey @Theresalbritt,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I understand that you are not able to print in black ink on your HP Officejet 6500 All-in-One Printer. I would like to assist you today with resolving this print quality issue. Thank you for including the troubleshooting steps you have completed prior to reaching out for support. To start troubleshooting I am going to have you print a standalone Print Quality Diagnostics Report from your printer. This report will help us determine if this issue was caused by a software or driver conflict on your computer or a hardware issue on your printer that coincidentally occured when the HP Technical Support agent was working with you. Once we determine if this issue is hardware or software and driver related I will be happy to guide you towards a solution. Please follow the steps below.
How to Print Quality Report:
On the product control panel, press the Setup button () until Print Report displays, and then press OK.
Press the Right Arrow button () to select Print Quality Report, and then press OK. The report prints.
If this report prints perfectly: Than the issue that you're experiencing is not hardware related. Rather, there is a driver or software conflict occuring on your computer that is affecting your black print quality. Please do not proceed with troubleshooting at this time.
If this report prints with quality defects or missing black: Than the quality issue that you're experiencing is being caused by a hardware issue within your printer. This issue may be due to a defective Printhead system. In no way does the computer affect this hardware issue. To resolve this conflict can I please have you click here. Once the support document opens please run through Solution one, Solution five, and Solution six. This includes any sub-steps under the listed Solutions. However, because you note that you have already cleaned the Printhead multiple times do not run a Printhead cleaning again. You do not want to exceed three Printhead cleans if there is no difference in quality because when you clean the Printhead ink is used. If three cleans has not resolved your issue proceeding with additional cleans will just waste ink. Should the black printing issue persist please click here and run Step 7 and Step 8 to manually clean and soak the Printhead mechanism.
Please respond to this post with the result of your print quality troubleshooting. Good luck!
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