Mystery Dots
2008-12-15 by olaf ringdahl
Lately, with my 2400, I have sometimes been getting tiny, pinpoint size dots of ink, in the top border of a 13x19 landscape oriented print. The dots, one or more of them, appear at random locations within a half inch by four inch area at the trailing end of the print. These tiny dots appear nowhere else on the sheet and they don't appear anywhere at all on a letter size sheet. The dots are not smeared, so it's not a matter of the trailing edge of the paper rubbing anything as it leaves. And they are not spattered or of irregular shape. They are all perfectly round but of varying size, from the size of a typewritten period down to near total invisibility. And sometimes - usually - there are no dots at all. It's a complete mystery to me. Does anyone out there have any idea what might be happening and what I can do to keep it from happening again? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Olaf