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Just wanted to say thanks all for the advice. It is 90% better with the application of stain remover and NO HEAT (thank god I asked mumsnet first).

I will attack it again when it is dry and the baby is not doing her rage face. And if the worst comes to the worst, will try boffin's tip!

Right, it might be possible to neatly remove a square with proper carpet cutter and replace it with another piece if landlord has spare offcut in loft or similar. (I didn't tell you that).

Oooh. Will try hairspray and report back, thanks!

specialsubject . I wasn't suggesting a hatchet job! I was thinking along the lines of using a pair of nail scissors and taking a few strand here and there to lesson the effect of the toner ink. As for my suggestion of painting I was thinking of a fine modelling brush and tiny dots of paint just to cover up the worst of the dots whilst the house was being inspected for the end of tenancy inspection.

We used hairspray to get loads of biro off a cream leather sofa. We had tried a million other things before and nothing touched the biro except for the hairspray. this article suggests it can be used for tore ink too ????

I live in a rented house with cream carpets and always have a bottle of 1001 on hand. It cleans up anything

Oh and approx area of damage half a foot radius. At edge of room.

Thanks all for the responses.

I hate the carpet. I have a toddler and a baby and spend my entire life following them around with a damp cloth.

Whatever you do, DON'T use anything hot - found out from the IT guy in work yesterday that if you get toner on your clothes, always use a cold wash, as toner is fused to the paper in the printer via heat (and will get fused to your clothes/carpet via the heat also).

Also how about using a very little shoe whitener/polish, right on the dots, to cover them? Or a grouting pen? Might be better than paint.

and what landlord puts WHITE carpet in rented property???

What is approximate area of damage, and is it near the edge of the room or the middle?

too late now, but keeping it dry, using a vacuum cleaner snout followed by dabbing with the sticky side of sellotape, and lots more hoovering, would be better.

wetting it changes it from dirt lying on the surface to a stain in the fibres.

please do not paint or cut up the carpet.

Could you snip out little bits of the carpet, just a tiny bit where the worst bits are?
Or, when itcomes to the end of tenancy inspection, could you disguise the dots by a tiny dab of paint?

it even gets rid of shoe polish.....

Be warned though. Ventaliate!

Worth a try, thank you!

I used stain slayer / desolv-it spray to get rid of lily pollen on a carpet once. Its in the laundry section (tescos is where I got it). May work?

Help, please!! It's just little dots. I have scrubbed and soaked with shout clothes stain remover (all I had to hand at 11pm when it exploded). It has helped a bit. What else can I try?

Would a professional be able to remove it?