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Printing is blurry, not sharp, occurred after replacing an ink cartridge, HP original ink cartridge not an off brand.

I cannot get it to print clearly.

 

Suggestions??

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@BenW2, Welcome to the HP Support Community!

 

Which ink cartridge did you replace?

 

For best print quality, align the ink cartridges.

  1. Load plain white paper in the input tray.

  2. Press the Setup icon  on the printer control panel.

  3. Select Tools, and then select Align Cartridge.

    The printer prints an ink cartridge alignment sheet.

  4. Place the alignment sheet face down on the right-front corner of the scanner glass.

If the issue persists, clean the ink cartridges

  1. Load plain, white paper into the input tray.

  2. Press Setup.

  3. Select Tools, and then select Clean Cartridge.

  4. Check the report for any defects. If the print quality is not satisfactory, run the cleaning process again.

You may also perform step 10 from this document - Fixing Poor Print Quality

 

Hope this helps! Keep me posted. 

 

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