Hp deskjet 3070a wont print black

My printer has stoped printing black ink, color works fine. It happened a few printed pages after switching to new ink cartadges but only the black stopped working. No ink what so ever comes out. Have tried the print head aligning, cleaning and every other tip on your site. Even tried to manually remove the thing the cartadges sits in and cleaned it with hot water with help from instructions here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printing-Issues-Troubleshooting/Deskjet-3070A-won-t-print-black-after-b... but nothing helped.
The printer is around 3 years old, so warranty, there's no error message and nothing else seems wrong. The problem came out of nowhere, one day it was printing fine, the next, no black ink. I live in sweden (seems to be relevant somehow).

Hello @vritra,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums! I understand you have exhausted the troubleshooting steps to try and fix the black ink not printing on your HP Deskjet 3070a.
I appreciate your persistence and would like you to contact our technical support at 800-474-6836. If you live outside the US/Canada Region, please click the link below to get the support number for your region.
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