Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Matt Haber" <matt@m...> 
wrote:
> (quoted text *below*)
> 
> jim--
> 
> for the example, if i printed text, the text would be reasonably 
sharp, 
> but there would be discreet dots of ink outside the body of the 
text, 
> wehn examined with a loupe. Also, (when i still had color in the 
740) 
> i printed an image on both my 1270 and the 740; the 740 would 
> have random black dots (again, very small--almost needed a loupe 
> to see) in a place in the image where there should be no black. 
> 
> -matt
> 
> > 

Okay Matt, thanks for the clarification. I've had a lot of clogging 
issues, more than I care to think about, but never something like 
this, so I'm not going to be able to help you. If I were to take a 
wild guess it sounds like either an alignment problem or the Epson 
driver is acting odd.

I guess the only thing you could try that is one procedure that I used 
was the paper towel under the head trick, on the off-chance that 
dirt/hairs under there are causing tiny dots to print where they 
shouldn't. But I usually don't see this until it gets much worse- like 
1/8 inch diameter blobs of inks scattered on print now and then.

One other thought- do use use paper that tends to flake? If an area 
printed black flakes off you would get tiny dots of black spread 
around. The solution would then be to either brush the paper off well 
before printing or switch papers.
Good luck,
Jim H.