HP L7680 Printer Alignment Failing and only prints magenta on test pages

Hi,
My printouts have been getting a little streaky so looked at the mataining printhead section in the manual. It says about how to clean the contacts and I followed this perfectly. I also took this opportunity to change all the ink cartridges after doing the suggested head clean before starting the process.
Now I keep getting the "alignment failed" error and when I print out a self test report it is only in magenta. Also the printout which happens at the end of alignment sequence only has magenta " N's " on it and nothing else.
When I print out a pdf page there is no black, but yellow and red colours are there.
I have reset the printer using the # with 6 and 9 and this does not help.
After each reset and alignment sequence the printer goes though various functions which takes about 15-20 each time and has used a lot of ink.... My brand new 88XL cartridges which cost about £75 are now less then half full and i've not even printed a proper page yet.
Can someone from HP please get in touch to tell me the solution before I waste any more ink.
Regards

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