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Sharp UX-460 Plain Paper Fax with TAD Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: sharp ux460 a little work horse
Comment: my ux460 has served me well through 4 years and countless tax return sessions and other light office duties on a daily basis. I only wish all small office products held up so well. The copy feed is a bit touchy one must nurse the pages thru one by one or two by two maybe. this is a good single sheet light office machine and a very good price.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: OK, but you get what you pay for
Comment: This machine is truly average. It does an average job of receving faxes, sending (although anything more than 3 sheets in the tray and it often picks up more than one sheet at a time), average or slighlty lower than average photocopying. Callers have told me that the sound quality on the handset is only fair. And the "speaker" feature is mis-leading in that you can only use it to dial or listen (not speak); it is not a speaker phone. The film cartridge does not last long and is very inefficient. ...I think I got my money's worth, but no more.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: An efficient, quality multi-tasker
Comment: I'm surprised to see the handful of negative reviews from other customers on this machine, and can only assume that the problems they've encountered are due to their own impatience and refusal to read the book to see how it works. I've had mine for close to 3 years and have recommended it to other home-business owners, as well.

WHAT I LIKE: speed dial is a cinch; multi-tasks as phone, fax, answering machine, and last-resort copier; answering machine is digital (no distorted tapes) and functions remotely (check your messages from anywhere); prints on plain paper (not those nasty, curly thermal rolls); offers different graphics settings for fax (photos, light/dark, etc.); "hold" button is useful for phone calls; if image toner roll runs out mid-fax or while you're out, messages and faxes are autoatically stored in memory; automatically detects incoming phone calls vs. faxes on TAD setting -- no need to be there to switch the machine over; identifies and receives 99% of incoming faxes, no matter what machine the sender is using.

WHAT COULD BE IMPROVED: while the toner rolls are inexpensive and easy to find at office supply stores, they don't last more than a few months with heavy useage; the "speaker" setting is for outgoing calls only until call is answered -- not a real speakerphone; a blinking light would be easier to see than the blinking LED display to show new messages; remote functions are thorough but require exhaustive list of codes, like *3 and *33 and *5 and *# -- too complicated to bother; I personally use the "copier" function only when my other machine is down, because the quality looks like a fax and because it uses up the image toner roll.

Overall, like I said, if you are willing to spend 10 minutes with an instruction manual for initial setup -- which I hope you would be to properly learn your machine -- then it's a great fax with tons of useful features. No one will ever know you saved so much money on it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: First Home Fax
Comment: I recently purchased this fax machine for our home. My husband had no trouble setting it up. It is working great. The fax quality is as good as my office Panasonic model. I was impressed with the speed it receives and transmits. My only complaint is that I wish there was a light to let you know if you have any messages. We have the unit on a shelf above our computer and it is very hard to see if anyone has left messages.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Worked Well for a Few Months...
Comment: ...then went sharply downhill after I changed the film. All sorts of strange error messages after a paper jam, and then, even though it was loaded with paper, the machine refused to acknowledge that there was paper and kept flashing that I needed to add paper.

This machine was bought to replace a Sharp thermal fax machine that didn't last a year.

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