SKU:

CS-Bro-OEM-Tn-336-C

Printer Brand:

Brother

OEM Number:

TN331C TN336C

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

Color: 3500

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New

Frequently Asked Questions

Our week is wall-to-wall color reports and charts — how does cyan consumption add up?

Cyan does heavy lifting in business graphics: it builds the blues and greens in charts, logos, headers and highlighted tables. The TN336C is rated at 3,500 pages, but that rating assumes ordinary mixed documents. A department whose pages are dense with color graphics will move through cyan noticeably faster than the headline figure suggests, while an office printing mostly letters with a color logo will land close to it. Plan your reorder point around your own page mix, not the rating alone.

Why does a color page on this platform cost close to double a black page?

Two facts stack up. The TN336C costs $166.75 where the black cartridge costs $103.36, and it is rated for 500 fewer pages — 3,500 against 4,000. Divide price by yield and cyan lands near 4.8 cents a page while black sits around 2.6 cents. Nothing is wrong with your machine; color toner on this Brother platform is simply the expensive half of the running cost, which is why many offices print internal drafts in mono and save color for final copies.

What sort of printed page is that 3,500-page figure actually measured on?

Manufacturers rate cartridges on standard test pages with light, even coverage — roughly the density of a typical business letter spread across the page. A page carrying a full-bleed photo or a solid chart background lays down many times that amount of toner. So treat 3,500 as the benchmark for ordinary office documents, and expect fewer pages when your output leans toward presentations, brochures and image-heavy reports.

When the cyan runs dry, can I change just that one cartridge?

Yes. Each color in this family sits in its own slot and can be swapped independently — there is no need to disturb the magenta, yellow or black cartridges when only cyan is empty. The machine will tell you which color it wants. Keeping the change to a single TN336C also keeps the spend down: you pay the $166.75 for the color you actually need instead of refreshing the whole row out of habit.

How do I work out whether cyan is the color fading on my prints?

Look at what the colors are doing. When cyan fades, blues turn purplish, greens lose their freshness and drift yellow, and sky or water images look wrong even though reds still seem healthy. Print the machine's built-in test or demo page and compare the color blocks: the cyan block will look pale or streaky next to the others. That points to the TN336C as the cartridge to replace.

What protection comes with a genuine Brother cartridge like this one?

Two layers. Anything wrong on arrival, or a cartridge that fails straight out of the box, comes back to us within 30 days — returns on genuine Brother stock run for 30 days in all cases. After that, the cartridge is backed by Brother's own manufacturer warranty, as you would expect from an original product. You can read the detail on our shipping and returns page.

About This Brother TN336C Cyan Toner Cartridge

The TN336C is Brother's original cyan cartridge for the HL-L8250, HL-L8250CDN, HL-L8350, HL-L8350CDW, HL-L8350CDWT, MFC-L8600, MFC-L8600CDW, MFC-L8850 and MFC-L8850CDW workgroup printers. Rated at 3,500 pages, it is on sale at $166.75 compared with a $233.45 list price. It ships from whichever of our IL, PA, GA or CA warehouses gets it to you fastest, and help is available on weekdays between 9 AM and 5 PM CST. Sibling cartridges and the rest of the genuine line are collected on our Brother page.