HP Photosmart 7510 Series Printer Problem

For several weeks I have had issues of my black ink not printing.  This has been very frustrating and costly as I spent over a hundred dollars on new ink cartridges (combo package).  After reinstalling the cartridges  several times with no success at printing and numerous attempts to clean the injectors, thinking they might be clogged, still the black ink would not print.  I read on this blog that others had similar problems and after several days of letting it sit idle they tried again and had success. I tried everyday for a few days and got tired of it failing to print and wasting the colored ink.  Now after several weeks I tried again and IT PRINTED as it should!!! Yea, but why did this occur?  What caused it to start printing again?  I thought I was going to need to buy a new print head but then I saw how costly print heads are I figured I might as well give up and go buy a new printer (I would not have bought another HP if I had done that)  Anyways, I am happy that today after several weeks I tried printing again and it worked, but I want to know why does it now work?  What caused it not to print in black for all those weeks?
BobmadatHP

There are a few possibilities:  if the vents are clogged the ink would starve, but may recover after some time.  If the printhead was left uncapped (due to shutting off the power to the printer from an external switch for example) the printhead could clog.  It could recover after sitting in the high humidity capping station for some time.
If the issue arises again you might go through the troubleshooting steps in the document here.   If the above does not resolve the problem the post here may help.
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