Photo printing black HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 2675

[SuperDotto]

Greetings, I printed some stuff with photo paper with my printer and I noticed the sections with black areas were just rubbing off the paper, this happened regardless of the paper type I chose.

After some time I did some research on found online that the black ink isn't compatible with photo paper so it must print black mixing the colour ink. It says to do so I have to choose "photo paper" as the paper type.

The problem is, I did so, from my pc, and also directly from the printer, and it still produced the same result.

So in the end I just took out the black ink cartridge just to test, and it worked.

Now, obviously I can't be expected to have to remove the black cartridge every time I want to print using photo paper, so what's wrong ?

I am using Arch Linux and have setup my printer with hplip.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

PS: I noticed that the photo printing option works as intended when using my phone, so I am guessing this is a driver problem.

[SuperDotto]

This is what hp-check is giving me.

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| SYSTEM INFO |
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Kernel: 5.0.10-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 27 20:06:45 UTC 2019 GNU/Linux
Host: arch
Proc: 5.0.10-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 27 20:06:45 UTC 2019 GNU/Linux
Distribution: 0  
Bitness: 64 bit


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| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
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HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.19.5
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
warning: HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is not supported for 0 distro   version  

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf.  Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.19.5

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.19.5
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.19.5
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp
bin=/usr/bin
apparmor=/etc/apparmor.d
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=yes
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=no
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.19.5
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt5
qt3=no
qt4=no
qt5=yes
policy-kit=no
lite-build=no
udev_sysfs_rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no
apparmor_build=no
class-driver=no


Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
Plugins are not installed. Could not access file: No such file or directory

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
warning: Could not access file: No such file or directory
<Package-name>        <Package-Desc>      <Required/Optional> <Min-Version> <Installed-Version> <Status>   <Comment>

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| External Dependencies |
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cups                 CUPS - Common Unix Printing System                           REQUIRED        1.1             2.2.11          OK         'CUPS Scheduler is running'
gs                   GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer REQUIRED        7.05            9.27            OK         -
error: xsane         xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE                  OPTIONAL        0.9             -               MISSING    'xsane needs to be installed'
scanimage            scanimage - Shell scanning program                           OPTIONAL        1.0             1.0.27          OK         -
dbus                 DBus - Message bus system                                    REQUIRED        -               1.12.12         OK         -
policykit            PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework                  OPTIONAL        -               0.116           OK         -
network              network -wget                                                OPTIONAL        -               1.20.3          OK         -
avahi-utils          avahi-utils                                                  OPTIONAL        -               0.7             OK         -

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| General Dependencies |
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libjpeg              libjpeg - JPEG library                                       REQUIRED        -               -               OK         -
cups-devel           CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files    REQUIRED        -               2.2.11          OK         -
cups-image           CUPS image - CUPS image development files                    REQUIRED        -               2.2.11          OK         -
libpthread           libpthread - POSIX threads library                           REQUIRED        -               b'2.29'         OK         -
libusb               libusb - USB library                                         REQUIRED        -               1.0             OK         -
sane                 SANE - Scanning library                                      REQUIRED        -               1.0.27          OK         -
sane-devel           SANE - Scanning library development files                    REQUIRED        -               1.0.27          OK         -
libnetsnmp-devel     libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files REQUIRED        5.0.9           5.8             OK         -
libcrypto            libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library                    REQUIRED        -               1.1.1           OK         -
python3X             Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language          REQUIRED        2.2             3.7.3           OK         -
error: python3-notify2 Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications OPTIONAL        -               -               MISSING    'python3-notify2 needs to be installed'
python3-pyqt4-dbus   PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4                         OPTIONAL        4.0             4.12.1          OK         -
python3-pyqt4        PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x)         REQUIRED        4.0             4.12.1          OK         -
python3-dbus         Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus                       REQUIRED        0.80.0          1.2.8           OK         -
python3-xml          Python XML libraries                                         REQUIRED        -               2.2.6           OK         -
python3-devel        Python devel - Python development files                      REQUIRED        2.2             3.7.3           OK         -
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/bin/hp-check", line 862, in <module>
   num_errors, num_warns = dep.validate(time_flag, is_quiet_mode)
 File "/bin/hp-check", line 368, in validate
   self.core.dependencies[dep])
 File "/bin/hp-check", line 210, in __update_deps_info
   installed_ver = self.core.version_func[deps_info[6]]()
 File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/dcheck.py", line 373, in get_pil_version
   return Image.VERSION
AttributeError: module 'PIL.Image' has no attribute 'VERSION'