Samsung Waste Container Black 5K, Color 1.25K Yield for CLP-300, CLP-300N, CLX-2160N, CLX-3160N, CLX-3160FN (CLP-W300A)

by Samsung

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 6 x 4 inches ; 6.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000IFTR24
• Item model number: CLP-W300A
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 22, 2004

Product Description

CLP-W300A is a waste toner powder collection bottle specifically designed to ensure print quality with crisp, vibrant output from the first page to the last page. It is recommended to empty the bottle before it fills up, due to that it can cause bad print quality issues.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Replaceable Internal Component, May 26, 2008

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Blueblueblue - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung Waste Container Black 5K, Color 1.25K Yield for CLP-300, CLP-300N, CLX-2160N, CLX-3160N, CLX-3160FN (CLP-W300A) (Office Product)

The page does a poor job of describing what this item is and does.

I just bought a Samsung CLP-300 printer, and read in the manual about the Samsung Waste Toner Collector (CLP-W300A) and what it does.

One of these (the collector) comes with a new CLP-300 series printer. This is a bottle that fills as you print, with toner that is taken from the toner cartridge cylinders, but not used during the printing process. Samsung seems to have had a good idea doing it this way rather than having it accumulate in some inaccessible space within the unit.

The Toner Collector also has what appears to be an optical port on the side (most likely to enable the printer to tell when it is full).

The documentation that comes with the printer specifies the Toner Collector needs to be replaced when full, which (it seems) they expect after printing between 1250 and 5000 pages (at 5% saturation for color and B/W print, respectively). Failure to replace A FULL Waste Toner Collector results in stoppage of printing.

I don't see any reason not to simply dump the toner and clean out the supplied collector when it gets full, except that that could turn out to be a messy job, and it may be simpler to plunk down the 10-15 bucks to just buy a new one.

In summary: this Waste Toner Collector is an internal part of the Samsung CLP-300 series printer, found just inside the front access panel, and it is easily removed and replaced.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I just dumped mine out, April 13, 2009

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Jan Twardowski (Washington State, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Waste Container Black 5K, Color 1.25K Yield for CLP-300, CLP-300N, CLX-2160N, CLX-3160N, CLX-3160FN (CLP-W300A) (Office Product)

I would have bought a new one, but they seem to be hard to come by quickly, for a reasonable price. Amazon doesn't stock them and the "other sellers" are not very well known. No luck at Office Depot, Staples, Tiger Direct, Adorama, etc. So . . . I just dumped mine out (yes, it's a dusty job), brushed it off, and put it back in. Seems to work fine. I was amazed, however, at the large quantity of toner I paid for that has been wasted. There doesn't seem to be any point in buying a new one of these, but maybe after a few cycles it'll get clogged. For now, though, all is well.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Replace but Hard to Find, September 14, 2008

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J. Adams (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Waste Container Black 5K, Color 1.25K Yield for CLP-300, CLP-300N, CLX-2160N, CLX-3160N, CLX-3160FN (CLP-W300A) (Office Product)

I think that this is a great idea, and the cartridge is easy to replace, but I had a hard time finding it on Samsung's site so I came here where I also had a difficult time finding it. I mainly blame Samsung for this because their online help didn't list the product number (CLP-W300A) in any of their help files.

Samsung Waste Toner Collector (CLP-W300A)