New cartridge of Black ink not printing and new cartridges of colored inks very light

Just installed all new cartridges and ran an alignment page. The colors are very light and no black ink printed at all. Before installing the new ink the printer would not actually print anything even though the status showed the document as "printing". The color ink lights had been blinking so I changed all three of them, still could not get the printer to print anything. I unplugged the printer and my computer and after booting everything back up a Word document would only produce a blank page so I thought the black ink needed to be replaced as well. After installing everything I ran the alignment page which shows very light colors and no black. What should I do next? The cartidges are authentic HP 920 XL Black, 920 Cyan, 920 Magenta, and 920 Yellow bought in a Combo-pack from Staples.

The troubleshooting steps in the document here may help resolve black not printing on your Officejet 6000 printer. Do the steps in order. Before considering Solution 8 - Replace the Printhead you might try soaking the printhead as described in the post here.

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I just got another email from HP about this problem wanting to know what I found for a solution to this problem. From all of the suggestions from the HP tec support all of them pretty much kept saying the same thing. That it is my fault that it's using so much ink because I have it on the wrong settings. One tec did slip and say that it doesn't matter what settings you have it on it will always use the Photo Black cartridge for printing plain black text and it doesn't matter if you have a X-Large Black cartridge in it for text printing because it was made to always use the Photo Black for text and even use some of the colors to blend with the black to make it stand out. Why anybody would need this when just printing shipping labels and things like that I don't know.
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