Thanks, everyone! Here is some photos of what it is doing.
I noticed that when I printed the GIF image of a tree I painted in Microsoft Paint, the background came out orange, the color it is supposed to be. The brown also came out nice. :thumbup: But the green came out gray.
Thanks for everyone's help. I've tried cleaning my print head's via HP Printer Control Panel on my computer, but it doesn't make stuff better.
I understand that the ink is "low", but why is it low when I didn't print much. Yes, I know a few months ago I printed about 10 to 15 full-color brochures that are about 5 pages each, but I don't think that should run my ink down that much. Plus, I was told to turn the printer off after using it to avoid the ink from drying up (which I do.)
If you are printing out "wall to wall" color stuff like THAT, it's no wonder your ink is going so fast! Those little tanks of ink only hold a few tablespoons each and that's nothing when you are printing solid colors like that above.
The specs they give on how many pages can be printed are for plain text, and not even the full sheet as most letters and documents dont have text over 100% of the sheets.
You might do seriously better having those brochures etc printed instead of trying to print on an inkjet, you'd get better paper, perm inks and better quality for less than they would cost to do yourself.
By the way, I looked that up on Amazon, and consistantly half of the reviews on it are very low, lots of reviews like this:
Okay printer for the price
This printer is very pretty and the cartridges for it are really cheap, but it doesn't get very many pages per cartridge and when I tried to install it on my Windows 7 machine, following the instructions that came with the printer didn't work
This china made printer does not manage color ink properly. Constantly says paper jam and needs ink when you just put ink in a week ago.
...had high hopes, but out of the box, the first test print was unreadable, cleaned print heads with utility, etc, never did work. returned it
1.0 out of 5 stars
printer was a disappointment and disgrace,
The color ink worked for a couple of weeks and then despite buying new cartridges and reloading all software, the color function never worked again
Do NOT buy this piece of junk!,
I've had my HP Officejet 6000 E609a printer for only 3 or 4 months and I'm already replacing it. Less than half a year and it epically failed after the first attempt to replace the ink cartridges! I first replaced 2 of the colors and then when I did, it said another color needed replacing, when it hadn't before. So, I replaced all 3 of the colors, except for black. A week later, the blue and magenta cartridges, which were replaced only a week earlier, the software said the cartridges were already empty, and I hadn't printed anything other than test pages to test the cartridge! At the exact same time, yellow simply stopped printing at all! The software said yellow was full, but would not print out yellow at all. After a while, yellow started printing again, but would not print solid yellow shapes, only yellow bars filling in the space. Cleaning the heads didn't work because the software or printer thinks that magenta and blue are empty, when the cartridges had only been replaced a week earlier!