Frequently Asked Questions

Three of us print to the C430W — why does the cyan seem to vanish between one week and the next?

Because shared printers spend color in a way no single user notices. Each person prints a little color — a chart here, a boarding pass, a photo for the fridge — and each of those jobs draws on the same CLT-C404S. The cartridge is rated at 1,000 pages in total, not per person, so three people's modest color habits add up to one cartridge emptying three times as fast as anyone expected.

When should we order the next cyan so the printer never sits idle?

The day the low-toner warning appears. On a 1,000-page cartridge the reserve behind a warning is a modest number of pages, and a shared printer can spend it in a couple of busy days. Ordering at the warning costs nothing extra and means the replacement is on the shelf before the blues start to fade — on this platform, the warning is the reorder point, not a countdown to watch.

Which machines does this cyan fit?

The CLT-C404S serves the Samsung Xpress C430W at the center of this listing, and the same cyan also fits the Xpress C430, Xpress C480 and Xpress C480FW. Its working partners are the CLT-K404S black and the magenta and yellow cartridges of the 404S family, each replaced separately as its own level runs down.

If we print in black and white, does the cyan get used at all?

No. A job sent as monochrome is printed by the black cartridge alone, and the three colors — this cyan included — sit that page out entirely. For a shared printer that is the cheapest habit going: internal drafts and plain documents sent in greyscale leave the color cartridges for work that genuinely needs them, and the cyan lasts noticeably longer for it.

What does the cyan in a typical color page cost us?

The cartridge is $39.41 for a rated 1,000 pages — about 3.94 cents of cyan per page at the standard 5% coverage. A color chart costs roughly that; a full-page photograph costs several times more; a letter with a blue logo costs less. Nobody is suggesting you count pages, but knowing the figure explains where a shared cartridge goes.

What protection comes with this compatible cartridge?

A one-year warranty against defects, and free returns at any time within the first year if the cartridge is not right for you — the full terms are on our shipping and returns page. Support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and deliveries leave from our IL, PA, GA and CA warehouses, so a replacement ordered at the warning is rarely more than a short wait away.

About This Xpress C430W Cyan Cartridge (CLT-C404S)

A shared printer spends its colors communally, and this is the cyan they are spent from: a compatible CLT-C404S rated at 1,000 pages for $39.41, fitted to the Xpress C430W and shared with the C430, C480 and C480FW. It works beside the CLT-K404S black, carries a one-year warranty and free returns for a year, and the wider Samsung range sits in our Samsung toner cartridge range.