HP Officejet Pro 8500 - Poor print quality and unexpected printouts

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Poor print quality and unexpected printouts

General print quality troubleshooting

Meaningless characters print

Ink is smearing

Ink is not filling the text or graphics completely

Output is faded or dull colored

Colors are printing as black and white

Wrong colors are printing

Printout shows bleeding colors

The printout has a horizontal band of distortion near the bottom of a borderless print

Colors do not line up properly

Text or graphics are streaked

Something on the page is missing or incorrect

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