SKU:

ML-3471

Printer Brand:

Samsung

OEM Number:

ML-D3470B

Ink Color:

High Yield Black

Page Yield:

10,000 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this cartridge cost per month in an ML-3471 that prints every workday?

Take a steady office pace of about 100 pages a workday — roughly 2,000 pages a month — and one ML-D3470B lasts around five months. That puts the toner cost of the ML-3471 near $13 a month, or about 0.66 cents per page at the $65.65 cartridge price. Double the daily volume and the cartridge still runs about two and a half months. Either way, it is a line item you can forecast in January and not revisit until the seasons change.

How many cartridge changes a year should an ML-3471 owner expect?

At that same 2,000-pages-a-month pace, between two and three. The 10,000-page rating on this high-yield cartridge is doing the quiet work here: the standard-yield ML-D3470A would come due well over twice as often, and every change is a small job someone has to stop for. Fewer, longer cartridges also mean fewer boxes in the cupboard and fewer chances to discover the spare shelf is empty at the wrong moment.

Our ML-3471 prints have started to fade — is it the cartridge or the printer?

On this platform, fading is far more often the cartridge announcing the end of its fill than a printer failure. Toner and the imaging surface are built into one combined unit, so when output goes pale or streaky, fitting a fresh ML-D3470B renews both halves of the system at once. If a brand-new cartridge printed pale from the first page, that would be a different conversation — and it is exactly the case the year of free returns exists for.

Which printers take this cartridge?

The listing centres on the ML-3471, and the ML-D3470B compatibility list also names the ML-3470D, ML-3470ND and ML-3471DK. Those machines share this cartridge code, so an office running several of them buys one product for all. The reliable check before ordering is the code on the cartridge already in the machine: ML-D3470B is the high-yield fill, interchangeable in fit with the standard ML-D3470A.

Is there anything to set up or transfer when the cartridge goes in?

No. Nothing moves across from the old cartridge and no settings change on the ML-3471. The spent unit comes out as one piece, this one slides in as one piece, and printing resumes. The genuine decision is only about timing: swapping on a quiet afternoon rather than in the middle of a deadline run is the whole of the strategy.

How long are we covered if something goes wrong?

The cartridge carries a warranty lasting one year, and returns are free of charge across the same twelve months — a defective unit, or a box ordered in error, goes back without a shipping bill. Details live on the shipping and returns page. Orders ship from the nearest of our four warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, so a replacement is rarely more than a few days away.

About This ML-D3470B Cartridge for the ML-3471

Budgeting is the quiet virtue of this cartridge. At $65.65 for 10,000 rated pages, the ML-D3470B turns the ML-3471's toner into a small, predictable monthly figure instead of a recurring errand, and its one-code fit across the ML-3470D, ML-3470ND and ML-3471DK keeps purchasing simple for mixed fleets. For any other printers on the premises, the full Samsung toner cartridge catalogue is the next stop.