SKU:

CS-Bro-OEM-TN433-Cyan

Printer Brand:

Brother

OEM Number:

TN433C

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

Color:4000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does the cyan seem to empty first on report-heavy printing?

Because reports are secretly cyan documents. Charts default to blue series, corporate templates carry blue headers and logos, and most office graphics lean cool. A page that looks "mostly black text" can still lay cyan into every heading, hyperlink shade and shaded table row. The TN433C is rated at 4,000 pages of standard test coverage, so on a genuinely blue-heavy workload it will be the first colour slot asking for attention — that is consumption, not a fault, and the high-yield fill is the practical answer to it.

What does the 4,000-page rating mean for colour cost?

At $166.49, the rating works out near 4.2 cents a page for cyan — roughly double the black's cost on this platform, which is normal colour economics rather than a markup trick: colour toner, in a cartridge built to the same standard, simply serves documents that use less of it per page on average. Against this cartridge's $249.74 list price you are already $83.25 ahead before the first page prints.

How does this compare with the standard TN431C cyan?

The TN431C that many of these printers shipped with is rated at 1,800 pages. The TN433C is rated at 4,000 — more than double — and it occupies exactly the same slot with no adjustment. Offices that found the starter-class colours disappearing every few weeks usually discover the machines were never the problem; they were running the small fill in a big-fill printer. Stepping up to TN433 colours is the single change that makes this platform's running costs settle down.

Which printers take the TN433C?

The family's ten colour models: HL-L8260CDW, HL-L8360CDW and HL-L8360CDWT, the HL-L9310CDW, HL-L9310CDWT and HL-L9310CDWTT printers, and the MFC-L8610CDW, MFC-L8900CDW, MFC-L9570CDW and MFC-L9570CDWT all-in-ones. Any of them showing a TN431C in the cyan slot will accept this cartridge as its high-yield replacement — the code family, not the individual machine, decides the fit.

If all three colours are low, is the single cyan still the right buy?

Probably not, and the maths is easy to check. This single is $166.49. The TN433 3 Color Set — this cyan plus the magenta and yellow — is $430.00, which prices each cartridge at $143.33. If one colour is low and the others are healthy, buy the single and waste nothing. If the gauges show all three colours within a few hundred pages of each other, the set saves $69.47 against three singles and replaces them in one session.

What happens if the cartridge arrives damaged or faulty?

Contact us first, before fitting it — help runs Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST. Genuine stock is covered by Brother's manufacturer warranty, and our own terms give you a return window of 30 days from delivery in all cases; the details are laid out on the shipping and returns page. We dispatch from four warehouses — IL, PA, GA and CA — choosing whichever is closest to your address.

About This Genuine Brother TN433C Cyan Toner Cartridge

The genuine high-yield cyan for Brother's TN431/TN433 colour platform — 4,000 rated pages at $166.49 against a $249.74 list, more than double the fill of the standard TN431C it upgrades. For blue-leaning office printing, it is the colour slot that earns the high-yield step first. Magenta, yellow, black and both sets are in the Brother range at Clever Supplies.