Black printing morphs into red after black ink cartridge installation

It looks like your Photosmart 1115 printer uses an HP45 black ink cartridge and an HP78 tri-color cartridge. Some HP printers will accept re-manufactured ink carts, while other HP printers will not...just so you know. I've always bought genuine HP ink cartridges on eBay to save $$$.

I just had this exact problem on my HP 5514. Black won't print after running out of black ink. New cartridge no good.
I tried everything-no good. I suspected the pinholes in the printhead were clogged with dried ink because I didn't change cartridge in time.
The fix that worked perfectly was when I hacksaw top off old black cartridge & removed all foam wicks so now I had a funnel(can see clear thru). I installed the cartridge & filled it with alcohol, printed page & did head clean; then printed few more pages. Problem cleared almost immediately. I then soaked up extra alcohol inside cartridge with paper towel. Removed modified cartridge & installed good one. I guess this could be done for colors as well. I don't know if this is a proper procedure, but it sure worked well for me.

Most HP cartridges have what's called an ACCUM chip, which doesn't care about the actual ink level, it counts how many milliliters (or droplets) have gone through the head to determine when it's "empty" and therefore refilling doesn't do anything, the accum still says the cartridge is empty.

Yes it can all you have to do is buy a new ink cartridge.if this is not what your talking about then please tell a little more about it

try cleaning cartridge carrier with a wet towel 

You need to clean the nozzles of the ink cartridge by dabbing on a wet paper towel folded many times, after the water you dab on a dry area to see if there's a solid black line. If it's a refilled cartridge it could be just worn out, they're only good for about 2 refills.

Try cleaning the gold contacts on cart first, with distilled water. Let dry and try again.
If not, try this one
1.Try placing sheet of black text on copy board, and run many copies black only. I ran 25x12 times still no black. Run head clean after about each 50 sheets. Persevered and finally BLACK ink OK
Inkypete

Here are two links with refill instructions.

www.refillinstructions.com/HP/H22.htm for the black cartridge, and

www.refillinstructions.com/HP/H23.htm for the color one.

Hope that helps!

Make sure you have removed the tape from the printhead on the cartridge. If you have sone this, then you can try turning the printer off and on a couple of times and see if this helps. You may need to press the OK button

I bought a new ink cartridge which will print well. But the alignment still does not work for some reason. The printer screen says to "check the device instructions" whatever that means. i am willing to continue to use the printer as is unless you have a simple solution. Thanks Gerald Lord