Streaky printing with new XL black cartridge (Photosmart 7520)

I installed a new HP XL black cartridge in the Photosmart 7520 about 10 days ago. Today the black and white text printing I mostly do started becoming unreadable - streaky, smudged, faint - even though the ink level report shows about 3/4 full for black (of course the report itself printed with streaks, etc.) I removed and re-inserted the black cartridge to make sure it was seated properly (it was and it is) and then I ran the clean cartridges function on the printer. The print quality report came back looking good (including alignment) except that the black area was streaky. After getting this print quality report, I tried printing text again. The first one page document printed somewhat streaky and with erratic faint areas; the second time I printed it, it was almost unreadable. Any suggestions?
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Repeated cleanings and then using the "align printer" function seemed to do the trick.

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