6500 Black printing issues - Constantly having to 'clean' the heads

The printer is working great, and easiest networking setup I've had. The issue is that after replacing the first black cartridge, about every day the printing begins to 'fade' then I have to client the heads, sometimes secondary cleaning to get it to work again. Is this the Printer? Bad Black ink cartridge? Very frustrating as I do like the printer.

I've also tried an alternate method of installing - installing Yosemite onto an external hard drive then cloning this drive onto the SSD installed on the iMac. The computer keeps rebooting. This is the message that pops up. Growing increasingly frustrated. Is this a hardware issue related to the new SSD?

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When your printer stops printing one or 2 of the colors it means your print head is clogged. Tech support will have you remove the print head and clean the copper contacts on the bottom, but that is not enough. Hold the head in a rag and shake it, lots of ink will come out of the inside. I saw one case where the guy held his print head under hot water till it ran clear. Not sure of the long term effects on the head if you do that. Mine has clogged twice now and it has been ink inside the head.
I would absolutely suggest not shaking the printhead. Ink is required in the printhead, and if air gets into the printhead it can cause printhead failure. See this page for an ongoing discussion.
For the C5180 this is moot, since the printhead cannot be removed to shake it in the C5180 with its permanant printhead. I would suggest three levels of printhead cleaning as described in Step 3 of this page for the c5180.
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Black screen issue - likely not related to the GPU, but i am concerned

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You may not find this funny, but I've stopped trying to fix this problem years ago. I know the solution. It has been discussed in the uninstall instructions. Regardless of the specific cause, which I believe to be the uninstall requirement in older versions, that I did not do.
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