SKU:

CLT-M506L-HY

Printer Brand:

Samsung

OEM Number:

CLT-M506L

Ink Color:

High Yield Magenta

Page Yield:

3,500 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do the faces in our printed photos keep coming out looking sunburned?

Because skin is where a tired magenta shows itself first. Human complexions are built from delicate magenta and yellow blends, and when the CLT-M506L in the magenta slot starts running thin, those blends tip — faces flush red, then drift orange. If your landscapes still look fine but your people look sunburned, the magenta fill is the prime suspect, long before any setting on the printer.

Is 3,500 pages a lot for a colour cartridge?

For this platform, yes — the CLT-M506L is the high-yield size for the magenta position, rated at 3,500 pages, so it stays in the machine far longer than a standard fill would. At $53.85 the arithmetic works out to roughly 1.54 cents per page. Colour cartridges are always consumed unevenly, so treat that rating as a well-kept average from measured coverage, not a promise for any single month of photo-heavy printing.

Which Samsung printers does this magenta belong in?

The CLT-M506L serves two machines: the CLP-680ND colour printer and the CLX-6260FD multifunction. It occupies the magenta position in either of them. Its family covers the other three positions too — CLT-K506L in black, CLT-C506L in cyan and CLT-Y506L in yellow — but each is a separate cartridge, and this listing is the magenta one only.

Our portraits look fine in the morning and odd by the afternoon — can a cartridge really fade that fast?

A cartridge at the very end of its fill can. The last of the toner feeds unevenly, so a long run of prints can start out acceptable and slowly warm up as the magenta contribution thins page by page. Intermittent fading that worsens across a single job is a classic end-of-life pattern for the CLT-M506L — quite different from a fault, which usually ruins every page from the first one.

The magenta we pulled out says CLT-M506L — does this listing match it?

It does. Read the code in two parts: the M fixes the magenta position, and the L fixes the larger, high-yield size. If the cartridge you removed carries that exact code, this is its replacement. If yours ends in a different letter, you are looking at a different size in the same family, and it is worth matching the code exactly before ordering.

What cover stands behind this compatible magenta?

A full year of it, twice over: the CLT-M506L is warranted against defects for twelve months from purchase, and if it disappoints you at any point in that year, sending it back costs you nothing — the details live on our shipping and returns page. Orders ship from the nearest of our IL, PA, GA and CA warehouses, and support answers in person Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This CLT-M506L High Yield Magenta Cartridge

The generous magenta for Samsung's CLP-680ND and CLX-6260FD — 3,500 rated pages at $53.85, sized for machines whose colour work includes photographs and anything else where skin has to look like skin. It is one member of the Samsung toner range we carry, supplied as a Clever Supplies compatible and backed by a year of warranty cover plus a year of free returns.