Sharp UX-C70B Black Ink Cartridge (UX-B700 Fax) Reviews
Sharp UX-C70B Black Ink Cartridge (UX-B700 Fax)
- Black ink cartridge
- For use with Sharp UX-B700 fax machine
- Approximately 500-page yield
- Thermal inkjet technology
- 1 ink cartridge per box
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List Price: $ 45.47
Price: $ 10.00
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fix for dry ink problem,
I had the dry ink problem also after not using for a week. I was ready to order a new cartridge but first I tried soaking the printhead in distilled water about 10 minutes. Do not soak the cartridge just the printhead. Place in about 1/8 inches of water. Now my cartridge works fine.
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|Viable Alternatives? Do They Exist?,
If you need a fax machine for “once in a while”, it is an extravagance to go to a laser printer type of device – – – especially if you already have a decent laser printer for your computer.
The problem with this kind of ink jet fax is that the ink dries out. That problem is compounded by the fact that the replacement cartridges are in the $30.00 range. So live with the fact that the ink dries out. The remedy is to learn how to clean the cartridge port where the ink comes out. Finally, after a year and a half, and having purchased a replacement cartridge after the first 5 months which, a year later I now realize that I never needed in the first place because I had not received as many as 10 pages. Clean the print head until you can get really black ink to coat the face. After having struggled with very soggy rags and tissue and testing and testing without success, I came across a review that talks about soaking the
print head in 1/8″ of water. It turns out that I had to do this twice. On the second time, I finished the attempt at cleaning by quite firmly smacking the print head into my soggy wet rag
on the counter (an an attempt to try to put some force or pressure on the place where the ink comes out and perhaps force some water into the canal or passageway (or whatever it is) of the cartridge where the ink comes out. Then I wiped the metal part on both sides of where the ink comes out and blotted the part where the ink comes out. It made my Kleenex very black. That was it. At this point, I knew that what I had done had done the trick. The next test page was complete as the manual shows that it should be when the combination of the fax machine and cartridge are working properly. So, for the moment it works just fine. I say, “for the moment” because my method was getting quite aggressive with the cartridge. Did I possibly damage it in some way such that the cartridge might now leak ink? I have not seen any evidence of this concern but it has only been one hour since I finally fixed my dried ink
problem. Another misgiving, of course, is how to know when the print problem is just dried ink and when you are out of ink. The number of faxes that I receive should have the cartridge lasting for years. The phenomena of drying ink, however, makes that not possible. I have put 90 days on my calendar for a reminder to clean the cartridge again, whether it seems to need it or not.
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|Pricey and page yield falls far below estimates,
Compared to other black inkjet cartridges, this seems wildy overpriced. If used only occasionally in a home fax machine to print out confirmations, it will likely dry out before it “runs” out. There are no viable lower-priced alternatives. Avoid remanufactured cartridges as they do not perform well at all.
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