Frequently Asked Questions

Prints from our SCX-4500W have gone pale down one side - will a fresh cartridge fix it?

Very likely, yes. A one-sided pale band usually means the toner in the fitted ML-D1630A has settled unevenly or is running low on that side; rocking the cartridge can even it out briefly, and a fresh cartridge renews the toner and its imaging surface together, which clears the fault when the cartridge is the cause. If a brand-new cartridge printed the same band in the same place, suspicion would move to the machine instead.

What does 2,000 pages look like in a small office's week-to-week use?

Picture it against the paper tray: 2,000 pages is four reams. A small office SCX-4500W printing and copying a ream a fortnight gets about eight weeks from one cartridge; one working through a ream a week gets about a month. Heavy, shaded pages shorten either estimate, plain correspondence stretches them.

What does each page cost from this cartridge?

With the cartridge at $52.61 and rated at 2,000 pages, the toner on each page costs around 2.63 cents. That is the single-cartridge figure for the SCX-4500W; the larger packs of this same ML-D1630A bring it down, the five-pack to about 1.89 cents, for offices whose volume justifies them.

Does scanning wear this cartridge the way copying does?

No - the two jobs are opposites for toner. Scanning reads a page and sends the image onward without printing anything, so it spends none of this cartridge. Copying prints what was scanned, and that is where the toner goes, at the same rate as printing the page from a computer.

Which machines is this cartridge shared with?

This listing names the SCX-4500W, and its cartridge is the Samsung ML-D1630A - the same unit used by the ML-1630, the ML-1630W and the SCX-4500. One code across the range means the cartridge from this listing is identical to the one sold under any of those model names.

What protection does this purchase include?

A one-year warranty stands behind the cartridge, and returns are free for that year if it arrives faulty or fails before its time. Orders are dispatched from our Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California warehouses, and support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This ML-D1630A Cartridge for the Samsung SCX-4500W

A single ML-D1630A for the SCX-4500W: $52.61, rated at 2,000 pages, about 2.63 cents of toner on every printed or copied page.

On a multifunction, pale-one-side pages are most often this cartridge asking to be changed - one swap refreshes toner and imaging surface alike. The family's pack sizes for busier SCX-4500W machines are listed in the Samsung range.

Finally: four reams per cartridge, scanning that costs no toner, a one-year warranty and free returns for a year.