Black is printing Brown (Eddie)

This could mean that you are missing some of the print head nozzles of one or more colors.   

1. Saturation and Quality. You can compensate for this by adjusting saturation and quality settings. 

1. Saturation. Increasing saturation will make colors more vibrant but increase the chance they will look splotchy, blurry, or bloom around the edges, especially black.  Increasing saturation will also reduce the life of your cartridge as it will use more ink. Black uses all three colors, so it uses more ink than the other colors. 
   
2. Quality. Quality 4 prints the slowest but will smooth out any lines/banding across the print. Higher quality takes longer to print, but does not use much more ink than lower quality levels. 
   

2. Cleaning.  Next, try the cleaning procedure shown in this article. 

Article ID: 072126

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