Brother IntelliFax-1270e Plain Paper Thermal Fax

This was a great machine until about the 6 month of very light use (Less than 100 pages) It started leaving a 3/8" black stripe down the right side of fax/copy. Often covering important info. This will force me to buy another fax mach.
Imagine faxing a price sheet with a nasty black line all the way down the right side covering all of the price except the last digit. that would have been great if it was the price of this machine $xx.x9.