Frequently Asked Questions

What does black printing cost per page at this pack size?

Roughly 0.83 cents. The 5-pack is $99.54 for five Canon 131 black cartridges (131BK), each rated at up to 2,400 pages — 12,000 pages in total, at $19.91 a cartridge. Bought one at a time, the same five cartridges would cost $173.50, so the pack saves $73.96. This is the cheapest way in the family to buy black, and the per-page figure is why high-volume desks choose it.

Twelve thousand pages sounds like a lot — who buys this?

Offices where the printer is infrastructure: admin teams, small warehouses printing labels and paperwork all day, anyone whose black output is measured in hundreds of pages a week. At 500 black pages a week, this pack is about six months of printing; at 200 a week, over a year. If that horizon sounds longer than your planning cycle, step down to the 3-pack or 2-pack — the arithmetic is still good, just less dramatic.

How should five cartridges be stored so the last one is as good as the first?

Sealed, flat, cool and dry — that is the whole recipe. Leave each cartridge in its bag until the day it goes into the printer, keep the box away from radiators, windows and damp floors, and rotate stock so the oldest spare is used next. Stored that way, a cartridge opened a year from now performs like one opened today; every cartridge in the pack carries a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns.

Is the cartridge in this pack identical to the single 131BK?

Identical. The Canon 131 black goes by the short code 131BK in these listings and by its Canon part number, 6273B001AA, in the 131H listing — one cartridge, two identifiers, a 2,400-page rating either way. The 5-pack changes nothing about the product; it changes the unit price and removes reordering from your calendar for a long stretch.

What if a cartridge in the middle of the pack fails?

The cover is per cartridge, not per order. If any of the five leaks, fails early or prints badly, the warranty and free-returns terms apply to that cartridge — replacement or refund, as described on our shipping and returns page. We dispatch from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, and the support team works Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

Do I need to buy the colours in bulk too?

Almost certainly not. In the Canon 131 family the colours — 131C, 131M, 131Y — are rated at 1,500 pages each and typically drain far more slowly than black, because most pages are pure text. Singles at $34.70, bought as each colour actually runs down, are the sensible pairing to a bulk black pack like this one.

About This Canon 131 Black 5-Pack

Five compatible Canon 131 black toner cartridges (131BK — also sold by part number 6273B001AA as the 131H), each rated at up to 2,400 pages for a combined 12,000. At $99.54 the pack works out to $19.91 a cartridge, $73.96 less than five singles, and around 0.83 cents per black page. Smaller packs and the 131C, 131M and 131Y colours are listed alongside it in our Canon toner collection.

Every printer in the platform — ImageClass LBP7110Cw, ImageClass MF624Cw and ImageClass MF628Cw — runs on the Canon 131 range. Buyers of this cartridge often look at the standard-yield 131 black cartridge and the 131 four-colour set as well.