Quality of black text printing with 7960

My 7960 does not print black. It has a blue tint to it. Ink cartridge has been changed

Hi - A couple of things you might try - First, in the printer driver, select "Print in grayscale" in the Color tab. This should force it to utilize the black cartridge only, assuming there is no color on the page. You might also try running the Clean Cartridge Test, just to make sure there aren't problems with any of the cartridges (even though they've been replaced).
BTW - Which cartridge did you replace? It sounds like the printer is trying to print a composite black using the color cartridge.
1 Make sure plain paper is loaded in the In Tray. For the Photosmart 245, the paper should be loaded face up.
2 Press the Menu button.
3 Press the Down Arrow until the Tools is highlighted.
4 Press the OK button.
5 Press the Down Arrow until Clean Cartridges is highlighted.
6 Press OK .
7 Press OK again to print a level one clean cartridge test.
8 Once the level one clean cartridge test page has printed, examine the printed page. If the print is not clear and/or there are lines in the color bars, continue to Step 9. If the print quality is acceptable and there are no flaws with the color bar, press the Down Arrow once then press OK .
9 Press OK to print the second level clean cartridge page. Yes is selected by default
10 Once the second level clean cartridges test page has printed, examine the printed page. If the print is not clear and/or there are lines in the color bars, continue to Step 11. If the print quality is acceptable and there are no flaws with the color bar, press the Down Arrow once then press OK .
11 Yes is selected by default, press OK to print the third level clean cartridge page.
12 Once the third level clean cartridges test page has printed examine the page. The printer will not ask you to print another clean cartridge test page. If the problem persists contact HP Support.
Hope that helps.
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UT<RS><EOT>
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