printer printing black parts of images silver

[MoltresRider]

I have an issue with my printer!!! it does this both on XP and Windows 7... if I print plain text, it is just fine... but if I print a picture all black parts of the picture are printed out as silver color instead!!! it has done this since I installed a new Black ink cartridge in my HP PSC 1210xi printer!!! I cannot figure out why it is doing this nor am I able to fix it!!! my ink status window on my computer says both color and black cartridges are ok!!!

 

[Layback Bear]

Two things come to mind. Cartage install incorrectly or the wrong cartage. Is it a HP cartage? Open up your printer program and their should be test print, clean ect you can do.

 

[MoltresRider]

Two things come to mind. Cartage install incorrectly or the wrong cartage. Is it a HP cartage? Open up your printer program and their should be test print, clean ect you can do.

it is a remanufactured cartridge... I bought two of them exactly alike... when the one ran out, I put the other in... this other one is having the problem...

 

[Layback Bear]

I think you just found the problem. I know it hurts because of the price but try a H.P one and see if it does the job. Don't forget the H.P. printer program has some cleaning and aligning things built into it. Some of the cheaper carriages have a less quality ink and scum things up.

 

[ddix1026]

tend to agree that its the cartridge. i have use generic or re-manufactured cartridges in the past and have found them to be nothing but trouble. i found that the generics typically use twice as much ink because of the constant cleaning cycles required to keep it flowing well, thus not saving anything in the end..