The black ink print is very very faint

1. hope you have not touched the contacts or head those protected by pink tape.
2. or the ink is dried up
Replacing Cartridge HP Photosmart C4280 All in One Printer

have you tried to use the same printer with another computer

Ink jets may be clogged, go into your printer software for the canon. At someplace in there there should be an option to run the cleaning program on the printer. This is used to clean out the jets and clean up the printer a little bit. Make sure that you have lots of ink, Cleaning process uses a lot ink

Sometimes it will print faint black even if there is a new black cartridge, because the color cartridge needs to be replaced as well.

Make sure that the cartridges are genuine Kodak cartridges, as well, for maximum performance and reliability.

Cleaning heads can use up a lot of ink, by the way.

You could clean the black ink cartridge. For this you need to remove the black ink cartridge which is present in the printer. In order to clean the laser or scanner block you could use a cotton swab as it would fully clean the dirt. You need to clean the grime and the dried ink present in the printer. This would remove all the hindrances which prevent the ink from flowing. Cleaning the printer heads would also help to solve the problem.

keep cleaning untill it starts to print clearly, you may reuse the same paper for that purpose, if you don't see any progress after 10 cleans, consider getting lasser printers, they are immune to print head drying and save alot of money on ink replacements. go with brother color or black and white series. I switched and don't have problems anymore

If it is Laser Printer then you need to replace the DRUM in Cartridge or need to replace the cartridge. Incase if it is InkJet printer you need head cleaning. Else replace the cartridges.
Thanks & Regards
Nandu :)

I find the best way to clean the heads is buy some cleaning cartridges as they have cleaning fluid in them and use them to clean it will take about 10 or more times to clean the heads then put the color ones back in and try again.
Just keep putting it on clean the head don't do a print out till at lest you have cleaned 10 or more times.

Rgs


The StickMan

call kodak they have a recall on the printer head i had the same problem the sent me a printer head and new ink

Hi please try these steps:::

Right-click the printer icon, and then select 'Properties'.
2. Click the 'Maintenance' tab, and then click 'Deep Cleaning'.



3. Select 'All Colors', 'Black' or 'Color' for the print head to be cleaned.





4. Read the message displayed, and then click 'OK'. The power lamp blinks and print head deep cleaning starts. (Do not perform any other operations until print head deep cleaning is complete. Print head deep cleaning takes about 1 minute.)

IF ABOVE STEPS DOESN'T WORK TRY THESE STEPS BELOW

Check ink tank vent hole The ink tank requires air to flow through it so ink can move from the reservoir to the print heads.

1. Confirm there is no orange tape across the top of the ink tank
   
   
2. If the orange tape is as shown in Figure (1), it is properly removed.
   
   
   
   *BCI-3's shown in this example.
   
   
3. If the orange tape is as shown in Figure (2), remove the remaining tape to the level shown in Figure (1).
   
   
4. Make sure each ink tank is snapped into the printer.
   
   IF THESE STEPS DIDNOT WORK THEN YOUR PRINTER NEEDS REPAIR(You might need to change the printer head.)