5740 HP Officejet printer: HP Officejet 5740 prints all lines of poor quality of black ink, a few lines thru

New printer, getting the veins through every few lines of print black ink

Hi @Badgermitt,

Thanks for joining the Forums of HP Support for a solution to your printing problem.

I understand that you use a HP Officejet 5740 e-all-in-one printer with a PC of Windows 8 and the printed text has black steaks through every few lines. I would like to help with that.

Black lines through the text is usually due to present an accumulation of debris around of the cartridge that can usually be solved by cleaning cartridges or ink. This can be done in the control panel of the printer.

Cleaning of the cartridges is discussed in this support material designed to be used with this problem - solve print quality problems.

Please let me know if that solves the problem, or if you need assistance.

In fact, if it helps you to find a solution, please click on the 'accept as Solution' and the 'thumbs up' buttons down below in this message.

Thank you!

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