I have a HP Officejet K550dtn printer that won't print black

They gave me this printer.  Everything seems to work OK except the black does not print!

I checked the print HP 88XL cartridge and it seems to be fairly complete and I pierced the small seal on the cartridge to make sure it doesn't have ink and mass and the black liquid on the needle, the ink supply seems functional.  I don't know how this is supposed to weigh when complete... so that the info would be useful.

I can't the printhead to move to the position of LHS, following the directions in the Self-Help, I found on the web.  I was able to do it once but it won't now work for some reason any.

I tried the printhead cleaning online to see if it works and it spits out about 20 + pages with NO black on them.

I tried 10 tap without help and tried 6 tap and this is where it goes through 20 + pages without stopping and no black.

Want to try manual cleaning the print heads, but cannot get them to move to the LHS.

I know that the tube containing the set of 3 colors and black cartridge print head are very thin and long (design?), but could not see anything that is crimped or any other problem with the tube.

I noticed that when the printer is turned on color cartridge lights are "on" while the HP 88XL is not... What is that saying?

I don't want to spend a lot on getting that BIG BOY working so any help is appreciated...

Thank you

Adrian

Hello
When the printhead moves to halfway to the left unplug power supply and remove the printhead and the printer, then turn on.

Try this solution for bad printeheads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6YjL7mff5c

or replace

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