Printer only spits out blank sheets

I have a photosmart 7550 and all I get when trying to print photos or even word documents is a blank page. I just installed three new print cartridges (56, 57, & 58). The calibration and diagnostic pages came out fine. I replaced the USB cable and that allowed Word to spit out a blank page.
Haven't used this printer in a long while and now I don't know how to get it to work. Any suggestions?

Hi Kaitlyn,
I have cleaned the printheads at least 5 times, tried printing reports, aligning printheads and even cleaning printhead manually and the ink cartridge also. No luck. I had no trouble with this printer until I brought everything upstairs and set up here and then that one part didn't work. The machine and printer had not been used in a week but all worked well before then. What will really be a drag is if I replace the printhead and it still will not work. This thing and I may have to have a long talk then! The monster will print in color but no black in it. Can the ink well jets be stopped up? How would anybody ever clean one of those out?
Thanks for the input and responding so quickly.
Evvy J
rainbowlady23 wrote:
@Trinity7243: have you tried cleaning the cartridges? and the printheads?
Try to go to the printer's setup MENU --> TOOLS--> CLEAN PRINTHEAD
IF its the same still, then the printheads of your printer would need to be replaced.
update me what ever happens

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