HP Officejet 4630: Black ink is printing half of lines

This is an example of how the documents printed on my printer now. I tried to align my cartrigages three times. It seems that my color cartridge works fine, but it's my black which is not. I reinstalled them both twice and nothing has helped. What is going on?

Type of printer - HP Officejet 430

type of computer - HP ENVY TouchSmart 360 x

The question seems to be an electrical connection between the printer and ink cartridge.  Try printing a test page, as shown below.  Is the black stripe large print only 1/4 or 1/2 of the height of the bars of color?  If so clean the printer and cartridge as shown in the document here contacts can help solve the problem.  Although this document was written for a series of different printers the same principle applies.

If the procedure above does not resolve the problem, I'd say changing the black cartridge.

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