My printer is printing, but nothing is appearing

My printer is printing normally, but nothing is coming up on the page. Occaisonally I will be able to make out the printed words, but they are extremely faint. I just bought new cartridges this morning. Please help! I have to print for school assignments ASAP

try run the tool called "clean printhead" first.
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