Hi, Matt.   You're now a 2x HoHoHo winner.

 MM> My daughter's HP does the same thing almost monthly when she gets a
 MM> hair to print something.  What I've been doing is removing the
 MM> cartridge and lightly wiping the surface on a quad-folded _damp_ paper
 MM> towel.  The moisture helps soften the dried ink, and the absorbency of
 MM> the paper towel draws out some ink through those tiny holes.  Sometimes
 MM> I have to repeat 2x or 3x, but so far so good.

 MM> Wipe with a slight diagonal motion.  No point of having a dried piece
 MM> of crud come loose from one hole then forcing it back into an adjacent
 MM> one.

Similar worked for me after an all-night soak in distilled water.  I
started with a pretty wet paper towel, ended up with a dry one.  The
paper towels kept absorbing more ink out of there the more I wiped, so I
finally just stopped. I didn't clean the heads anymore by printer
self-clean, just put it back in there and it started printing OK.

The HP cartridge design seems a bit flawed - - they seem to slowly leak
ink out of the bottom where the jets are, over extended periods of time.
- - at least the black ink heads do that for me.

FWIW, the cartridge at hand isn't a HP brand - - it is from NuKote. - -
part new, part recycled.

- - -  JimH.

... Jim, that cartridge cost you more than the whole printer did.- - Bubba
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