This is why HP and many other manufacturers recommend that you use their cartridges & ink (aside from ripping us off).  Many people do refills and have no problems, but you weren't one of the lucky ones.

>>Hi everyone,
>>since a few weeks my printer, a HP DeskJet 930C, is causing some trouble.
>>First few months I did not notice this problem so I suppose it was not
>>existing but am not sure. It does not print clearly now when it comes to
>>printing black text only (did actually not notice it when printing text with
>>pictures in-between and text printed in blue for example is all okay as
>>well). I am refilling the cartridges and thought it might be that the ink
>>was wrong or too old maybe. First I only noticed it with printing small font
>>sizes of fonts that did not come with any of the Windows programs but now it
>>goes up to Arial or Times New Roman size 13 even. The writing comes out
>>blurred with the one or other line within each letter missing and also some
>>entire text lines are worse than others while some are completely clear. I
>>did run the clean function from HP's toolbox and the result looks just
>>perfect. There are really tiny letters printed out and they look 100% clear
>>as well as the bigger ones, so I think it can neither be the ink nor the
>>cartridge that are causing the problem. I uninstalled/re-installed the
>>printer using HP's CD - no change, i.e. the test page (text) that is printed
>>looks blurred in some lines, while the photo-test page looks just great. Was
>>looking for a new driver on the HP site but the version number of the driver
>>is given as 3.1 while mine is said to be 4 (maybe it is a different version
>>number specially for ME which I found online while mine from the CD is just
>>something "good for all Windows versions" or such) and well, trying to
>>download the driver anyway did not work so far... any ideas how to solve the
>>problem would be appreciated a lot.
>
>From: joseph marty
>>>I am confused. You ran a test page from the printer's toolbox after doing a
>head/nozzle cleaning, and it printed perfectly?  So what program(s) do you print
>from that you get the funky printing?  Is it every program except the printer's
>toolbox?  For starters, go to www.hp.com and navigate to the user's forum on
>this printer.  You will undoubtedly find your question already posted with at
>least one answer.  What OS are you running?  If it is Win 2k or Win Me, do you
>have the updated driver for those OS's?  Another issue might have been the
>refilled cartridges, but if it prints perfectly from the test page app, clearly
>that isn't it.  You need to provide some more info in answer to my questions
>above<<
>
>Hi Jopseph and everyone else,
>so that's what I am (confused). The blurred printing problem happens with Word
>2000 and a label printing program. Will check the hp-forum next month when I
>will be online paying for unlimited access and not per minute any more.
>Spent a small fortune on a new cartridge after all and this does work perfectly.
>So I suppose it must have been the ink after all. I now am trying to use up the
>ink in the old cartridge for private letters and guess what - the print
>yesterday came out not perfectly but well enough to be legible all the 6 pages
>(mixed text and pictures). Plus afterwards it did print out well enough 7 more
>pages of scanned text (i.e. pictures of the text then of course as I did not use
>OCR) in smaller font sizes. The next scans though did come out illegible then.
>So I guess it actually must be the old ink maybe including tiny little bits of
>whatever that is clogging the nozzles inside and maybe sometimes float away and
>especially are pushed aside by the cleaning tool doing its job, so that
>


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