Frequently Asked Questions
What does $56.33 buy in cost-per-page terms?
A black page for under a cent. The Canon 117 black (part number 2578B001AA) is rated for up to 6,000 pages, and $56.33 across that rating works out to roughly 0.94 cents per page at the standard 5% coverage the industry measures by. For a mono workgroup cartridge that is a genuinely economical figure — everyday correspondence, contracts and reports all run at it. Heavy pages with dense graphics spend toner faster, but for the text bulk of office life, this is the rate your printing actually costs.
How long will one cartridge last our office?
Read the rating against your meter. At 500 pages a month — a small team's steady document flow — a 6,000-page cartridge is close to a year of printing. At 1,500 a month it is about four months, and a busy shared machine at 3,000 a month will finish it in two. The rating assumes standard coverage, and plain text sits near that assumption, so black cartridges track their ratings more faithfully than colors do. Your own last cartridge, and how long it lasted, is the most honest guide of all.
Which printers does the Canon 117 black fit?
The imageCLASS machines whose supply list names the Canon 117 black, part number 2578B001AA. That part number is the deciding reference — match it against the cartridge your machine asks for and there is no ambiguity, whatever the retail naming around it. This is a black-only cartridge for mono printing; machines on this platform take this one cartridge type, which makes ordering refreshingly simple compared to a four-cartridge color machine.
Why has our text started printing grey instead of black?
Almost always the cartridge announcing its end, in one of two ways. If one side of the page is paler, the remaining toner has settled unevenly: remove the cartridge, hold it level, rock it gently side to side five or six times, and reinstall — even, dark text means you have recovered the settled toner and gained some pages. If the whole page is uniformly grey and rocking changes nothing, the cartridge has simply spent its 6,000 pages and it is replacement time, not a machine fault.
Is this single the best buy, or should I look at the 2-pack?
Both, depending on the machine's future. The 2-pack of this same cartridge is $94.16 — $47.08 a cartridge against $56.33 here — and saves $18.50 across the pair, so for a machine in regular service it is the better arithmetic and keeps a spare on site. The single earns its place when the horizon is short: a printer being retired, a lease ending, a trial of a compatible cartridge before committing. Buy the pack for a machine with a future; buy the single when you are not sure it has one.
What warranty and returns back it?
A 1-year warranty against defects and 1-year free returns if the cartridge does not perform as it should — the full standard cover, with no reduced tier for choosing a compatible cartridge. The details live on our shipping and returns page, and if you would rather talk through a print-quality problem first, support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This Black Cartridge
This is a single compatible Canon 117 black toner cartridge, part number 2578B001AA, rated for up to 6,000 pages, for the imageCLASS printers that take the Canon 117. It ships from one of our four US warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, so a replacement is never an ocean away, and it is covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. The money-saving 2-pack of this cartridge is also listed on our Canon toner page.
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