Officejet 6500 ink system failure - hp printers used to be good, but are trash now

I'm so frustrated. I have an Officejet 6500 that gave me an Ink System Failure warning. I read that it probably was a low cartridge and so I replaced the low one - according to the level indicator, it still had ink - and it started working again. Then I got the error again. According to the HP print manager software, all cartridges had ink, but now the magenta looked low, so I replaced it. (As a side note, this printer EATS the expensive high capacity cartridges. I thought it was a good value to buy the higher capacity cartridge, but if I get a dozen pages out of them I'm lucky.)
So now I have tried cleaning the printhead using the manager software, which doesn't work because the printer is still in Ink system failure mode. So I took out all the cartridges, cleaned the printhead - it was inky - cleaned the contacts, reset using the turn on, unplug power cord from printer, from wall, wait 15 seconds, plug in to wall, plug in to printer. Still have the error. Did it all again. Still have the error.
I'm so irritated. I spent good money on this printer, and the expensive HP ink, because I'd had good luck in the past with HP printers. But this one h as eaten up  hours and hours of my time and cost me hundreds of dollars in ink alone and STILL  WON'T PRINT. Is there some other secret reset method that isn't documented? Some other test I can do? According to the troubleshooting guide, I"m now supposed to replace the printhead, and then if that doesn't work send the printer for servicing. Hello? You told me to replace the ink cartridge, so I wasted expensive ink doing that. Now I'm supposed to replace another part, without any real idea whether it will fix the problem or not? There's no diagnostics on this printer that can figure out exactly what part of the ink system has failed?
If anyone has any ideas how to get this piece of junk to print I'd really appreciate it. I'd love to be able to keep this printer working for a little while longer because I'm trying to get a business off the ground and just don't have lots of unused money sitting around to throw at solutions that "might" fix my problem. I've become so disullusioned with HP. They used to make great products, but now unfortunately the products and the support seem to have gone down the tubes together. I will NEVER buy another HP printer even if they fix the quality issues.

Try cleaning the print head with rubbing alcohol wipe, then replace your print head. Keep pushing the Ok. 
Go to this link and HP shows you how.
support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01643079
Lucky for me it worked!

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