Black Cartridge lacking on Web-Print.

Printing a web-page I suddenly found black wasn't printing. Knowing ink to be low in that cartridge I replaced it. Still does not work. What is mystifying is that although a little feint it will print an e-mail page satisfactorily. I am using an HP-F380 deskjet and windows XP.
Any help will be much appreciated.

Hi there,
Try downloading and running the print and scan doctor to make sure we are not having any driver problems, it is located here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03275041&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
It can fix a lot on its own and if not give a better idea of what is going on.
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