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 Leaky cartridge May 18, 2010
Your SBI Coach
The cartridge was obviously leaky as soon as I opened the plastic wrapping. Fortunately I was in a position to wash my hands immediately, or I would have been stained for days. So I had to return it, and dealing with Amazon return is no fun. The return process is confusing at best. When I finally got to the part where I could ship via UPS, the program to pull up a list of local stations wasn't working. I will buy it locally from now on. At least then if there are problems I know where to go.
 It's OK, But Can Dry Out April 9, 2010
CFH (Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA)
We use the Sharp UX-C70B Ink Cartridge in our Sharp UXB20 Inkjet Fax Machine. This cartridge is required if you are using the Sharp FAX machine and I have not found a generic that will work.
The cartridge performs OK if you use it regularly, but is prone to clogging and drying out if it goes for a week or so without being used. Most of the time this problem can be resolved by removing the cartridge from the machine and gently wiping the print head area with a damp paper towel.
This is not a great cartridge, but it is the only option if you are using a Sharp Fax machine.
CFH
VERTICAL LINES SHOW UP ONCE COPY IS PRINTING March 20, 2010
Edwina N. Wilks (Houston Tx)
In ref. to the "Sharp UX-C70B Black Ink Cartridge" I ordered for my fax machine, I was disappointed that 5 vertical lines showed up on the far right side of each copy I printed.
 Complete cr@p January 23, 2010
R. van Bakel (Maine, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sharp uses the tried-and-tested scheme of virtually all inkjet manufacturers: Sell the hardware for next to nothing, then sit back and watch the money roll in as irate consumers are forced to pay for overpriced proprietary supplies to keep their plastic little machines up and running. Nowhere does this get more excessive and infuriating than with ink cartridges. I would not be surprised to learn that in Sharp's case, both the quality and the quantity of the ink are engineered to wring minimum performance out of the cartridges. Ka-ching! That's another $30, and another, and another.
As others have noted, Sharp's pricey-as-gold cartridges have a nasty habit of drying out in record time. The printhead on the cartridges is so prone to clogging as to constitute willful negligence (or worse) on the manufacturer's part. Soaking the printhead in warm water and slamming it onto a wet rag a couple of times may dislodge the ink clots, but the relief is likely to be just temporary. I'm done with Sharp. Other inkjet makers aren't perfect either (because the technology itself isn't perfect), but Epson and Canon and HP aren't quite as shameless and blatant about gouging their customers.
thanks for the dried-out cartridge suggestion! January 7, 2010
ruh roh (Delaware)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having previously replaced a couple of cartridges that dried out on my Sharp UX-B20 fax, I've been pretty good about making a copy with the fax every few weeks to prevent the problem from recurring. But it happened once again--and the manual's instructions to wipe the cartridge and run the cleaning sequence didn't help. I got the cartridge to work by soaking the contacts at the bottom end of the cartridge in 1/8 inch of distilled water and then wrapping the end in a wet cloth and smacking it against my hand (don't know if the latter step was important, but it didn't seem to hurt). I'm grateful to the reviewers who suggested these measures. You've saved me--and probably a lot of others--a lot of money.
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