Print quality troubleshooting, Wrong, inaccurate, or bleeding colors, Clean the printhead align the printhead – HP Officejet 6000 User Manual

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Solution 5: Load paper in the input tray

Solution: If the product has only a few sheets remaining, load more paper in the
input tray. If there is plenty of paper in the input tray, remove the paper, tap the stack
of paper against a flat surface, and reload the paper into the input tray.
For more information, see:

Load media

Cause: The product picked up two sheets of paper.

Print quality troubleshooting

Use this section to solve these print quality problems:

Wrong, inaccurate, or bleeding colors

Ink is not filling the text or graphics completely

The printout has a horizontal band of distortion near the bottom of a borderless print

Printouts have horizontal streaks or lines

Printouts are faded or have dull colors

Printouts seem blurry or fuzzy

Printouts have vertical streaks

Printouts are slanted or skewed

Ink streaks on the back of the paper

Paper is not picked up from the input tray

Poor black text

The product prints slowly

Advanced printhead maintenance

Wrong, inaccurate, or bleeding colors

If your printout has one of the following print quality problems, try the solutions in this
section for help.

Colors look wrong
For example, green was replaced with blue in your printout.

Colors run into each other, or look like they are smeared on the page. The edges
might have a feathering appearance instead of being sharp and defined.

Try the following solutions if the colors appear wrong, inaccurate, or bleed into each other.

Solution 1: Make sure you are using genuine HP ink cartridges

Solution 2: Check the paper loaded in the input tray

Solution 3: Check the paper type

Solution 4: Check the ink levels

Solution 5: Check the print settings

Solution 6: Align the printhead

Solution 7: Clean the printhead

Solution 8: Contact HP support

Chapter 5

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Maintain and troubleshoot

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