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Won't print in black.

I have an HP882c Deskjet printer that I've had for quite some time. I have have several black cartridges and a color one that I purchased for it. For that reason I hate to get rid of it. The other day I noticed that the black ink (text) started to look a bit gray/green. When I tried printing in b/w mode I got nothing but a few dots on the paper. I have since cleaned the contacts, swapped out the cartridge and still in b/w mode get just a few dots. In color mode it will print color and the text, however text is graying/green I think that may be the printer mixing all the color to give me the gray/green color I was experiencing. I have also tried the self print not connected to the printer and achieve the same result to no avail. Please help, as I said I hate to get rid of it because I probably have $100 in cartidges for a printer worth nothing!!!

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