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I have an  HP Envy 4520 printer.

 

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I am trying to print an alignment page and every time I do, it comes out with only blue lines. I attached a pic. And if I try to print any other page, it comes out with super light grey lines no matter what color it's supposed to be. I have already replaced both color and black cartridges...checked the ink levels and they are full. I already tried to unplug the printer, wait 60 seconds, plugged it back in, printed a new page and EXACT same thing. This is so frustrating.

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Print a quality diagnostic report, does it look like the one in step #8 of this link?

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Hi 8lives,

 

No it does not look like the diagnostic report in the link you sent. It's missing quite a bit of stuff. Here is a pic of my printout. What does this mean?

 

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Hi, did you ever figure out what the issue with the printer was? I have replaced both the black and color in cartridges in the printer, ran the alignment paper through. Every time the printer comes on, it requests to align the cartridges. 

I have cleaned smears, cleaned the cartridge head, etc through tools numerous times. It prints out blank pages when asked to do so in black and white. I printed out my tax forms in “color” and it printed them in a blue grey hue. 

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