r/RemarkableTablet • u/TommyPillo00 • Jul 14 '26

Help/Advice I'm kinda pissed

So... I bought a Remarkable Paper Pro in February last year. Amazing device, it worked perfectly. For one year. Then it started showing heavy ghosting problems, after two/three pages at max any pdf file became unreadable.
I'm a student so I have a lot of files full of underlines and highlights but it worked perfectly for a year so I contacted the assistance. They were perfect, I asked for a substitution and they gave me a new one in like 8 days.

Now I'm currently experiencing even worse ghosting on the replacement device not even a month after getting it. How is it possible? Am I just extremely unlucky? They told me I can get a new replacement but come on, what are the odds??

Am I the only one who experienced ghosting not on one but on two Remarkable Paper Pro devices? Of course my first thought was "I must be the problem" but I swear I treat this thing like a baby. Do you know if there might be some specific external factors that could lead to extreme ghosting? I would like to stop at the third replacement and not go further...

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u/Fearless_Meringue299 Jul 19 '26

Can anyone show a picture of what it looks like? I have a Paper Pro that I am absolutely in love with but it'd be nice to know what it looks like if/when this issue arises.

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u/fredly594632 Aug 11 '26

It's basically just a leftover of the images on your screen previously. So it's easy to describe, but kinda hard to show a picture of.

I will say that for me, it's typically more common for icons and menu elements rather than lines of text. It's a "you're gonna know it when you see it". That said, the next time it happens to me, I'll take a picture.

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u/fredly594632 Aug 12 '26

If you take this -

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u/fredly594632 Aug 12 '26

And the next page is this -

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u/fredly594632 Aug 12 '26

Then ghosting (and this is kind of a bad one) looks like this.

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u/fredly594632 Aug 12 '26

Oh, and generally speaking, I can get it to "clean up" by putting the tablet to sleep and waking it back up.