printer will not print black ink but will print black on test page logo

I have a ij600 Conpaq printer. I installed the latest drivers on it. It will print black in the cartridge cleaning mode, but will not print black in alignment mode. It will print black when printing the test page, BUT only prints the ME logo which has black as part of it and not the rest of the test page. It will not print black on a word pad test doc. page comes out blank. O/S is ME.. yes ME…its granpa’s machine lol
any ideas?
Joe