My Canon Pixma MG5420 Hasn't Been Printing Properly.

I cleaned everything I could with tissues and q-tips and went through all of the cleaning settings, but prints either come out blurry or words and such will be vaguely duplicated. I just put new ink cartridges today, if that means anything. I don't want to end up having to take it to a shop for repairs.

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