SKU:

CS-Brother-OEM-TN830-Black

Printer Brand:

Brother

OEM Number:

TN830

Ink Color:

Black

Page Yield:

1,200 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New

Frequently Asked Questions

The TN830 looks like the budget option for these printers — is it really the cheap one?

Only at the till, and it is worth seeing why. This standard cartridge is $82.69 and rated at 1,200 pages, which works out near 6.9 cents a page. The TN830XL for the same printers is $86.99 — four dollars and thirty cents more — and rated at 3,000 pages, about 2.9 cents a page. So the "budget" cartridge charges well over double for every page it prints. Its real virtue is the low upfront number, and for a printer that sees a few pages a week, that can be a perfectly rational trade.

When does the standard TN830 actually make sense?

For genuinely light duty. A home office printing a couple of hundred pages a month gets half a year from this cartridge, and at that pace the per-page difference against the XL amounts to pocket change across a year. It also suits a machine whose future is uncertain — a printer being trialled, borrowed or run down before replacement — where banking 3,000 pages of capacity in the XL would be money parked in the wrong place. Low volume or short horizons: this cartridge. Everything else: read on.

How does the TN830XL compare, in plain terms?

Same slot, same genuine cartridge family, two and a half times the fill. Brother rates the XL at 3,000 pages against this cartridge's 1,200, and on this site the price gap is just $4.30. That is the smallest upgrade premium on any platform we sell, and it flips the usual advice: with most printers the high-yield step is a judgement call, but here a household printing even moderately will recover the $4.30 before the standard cartridge is even halfway through its fill. We stock both because the standard still has its readers — not because the maths is close.

Which printers take the TN830?

Fourteen compact models: the HL-L2460DW, HL-L2405W, HL-L2400D, HL-L2420DW, HL-L2465DW, HL-L2467DW, HL-L2865DW and HL-L2480DW printers, the DCP-L2640DW, and the MFC-L2760DW, MFC-L2807DW, MFC-L2820DWXL, MFC-L2900DW and MFC-L2980DW all-in-ones. Every one of them also accepts the TN830XL in the same slot — the machine does not distinguish; only the fill changes.

Is the drum a separate purchase on these printers?

Yes — these models pair their toner with a DR830 drum unit, which lives its own, much longer life behind the toner swaps. This TN830 is purely the toner: when the printer reports low toner, this is the part. A drum message, when it eventually comes, refers to the DR830 and is not cured by a toner change. Keeping the two apart in your mind saves the most common wasted purchase in this platform's running costs.

What are the return and warranty terms?

You have 30 days from delivery to return the cartridge, in all cases, and Brother's manufacturer warranty covers it as genuine stock — the full terms are published on our shipping and returns page. We hold stock in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California and dispatch from the closest; help is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Genuine Brother TN830 Black Toner Cartridge

The standard-yield genuine black for Brother's compact L2400/L2600/L2800 platform — 1,200 rated pages at $82.69, against a $115.77 list. It is the low-commitment rung of a two-rung family, and its bigger sibling is unusually close in price; both are shelved, with the DR830 drum, in the Brother range at Clever Supplies.