<x-flowed>Help, Most annoying is that my 1270 is dropping black ink in small lines or dots on my prints. I'm using Epson pgpp and inks. The black cartridge is 1/2 full and the color is full. It is also putting black smudges on the front left edge bleeding into the back. I've probably run 20 11x14s and 30 8x10s in the last month or so. And the printer was previously used by a pro photog. From this forum I suspect pads may be full, but I'm a bit of a klutz (put kindly) and also fear getting into some sort of reset problem. Any suggestions? Tom Sawyer - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. </x-flowed>