OfficeJet j145 all-in-One black print quality deteriorates

When printing of plain black text (ie. text in a Word document) deteriorates print quality.  Black text seems to be more than a dark shade of grey/purple.  If the printer does not receive heavy use I have never had to change the printheads.  I ran a few tests provided in the User Guide and have never got the message "Change print heads" appear on the printer as indicated in the User Guide if I needed a replacement.

Is this sounds like I'm needing a new printhead black anyway?

Thank you-

Thanks for the post of Bob.  I ran the test report and the ink levels seems to be ok; expired ink cartridges are June 2010 so we are ok.  The printhead of the report information section displays status = OK for the printhead (cyan, magenta, yellow and black), however the rectangular box above the black status area washed out looks like at best.  The print heads have been installed 30/04/2003.  I'll replace the print head back and see if things improve.

Thank you once more for the information; I really appreciate it.

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