Frequently Asked Questions

Why would a print room add a fifth cartridge it cannot install?

As deadline insurance. This set is the full GPR-30 bank — GPR-30BK black (44,000 pages), GPR-30C cyan, GPR-30M magenta, GPR-30Y yellow (38,000 pages each) — plus one spare cartridge held on site. Production deadlines do not consult toner levels: when a slot empties at the wrong hour, the site with a spare swaps it in minutes, while the site without one is choosing between a stopped machine and an expedited order.

Does the pricing ladder stay consistent at the fifth cartridge?

Yes — unusually tidy, in fact. The step from the 3-color set to the 4-color set is $100.61, and the step from four to this five-cartridge set is the same $100.61, bringing the total to $532.42. Across five cartridges the average works out to $106.48, the lowest per-cartridge figure in the family up to this point.

Which slot should the spare be assigned to?

Your own replacement history decides. The colors are rated at 38,000 pages against the black's 44,000, so a color slot is the statistically likelier first call — but a department printing mostly text can reverse that entirely. Look at which GPR-30 cartridge you have physically changed most often and hold the spare against that slot.

How is the spare managed once it is on the shelf?

Dated and rotated. Write the arrival month on the box, store it sealed, flat, cool and dry, and when the spare goes into service, its replacement becomes the new spare on the next order. A spare that nobody tracks quietly becomes a cartridge of unknown age; a spare with a date on it is a system.

Is five cartridges over-buying for a single machine?

For a low-volume office machine, honestly, it can be — a 38,000-page color rating already means long intervals between changes. The set earns its place where the machine's output is deadline work or shared departmental volume, the environments the GPR-30 family is built for. Match the stock to the cost of a stoppage, not to the size of the cupboard.

What if the spare is the one that turns out faulty?

It is covered exactly like the four in the machine: an individual 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, claimed on its own whenever the fault surfaces. Support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the set ships from our Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California warehouses.

About This Canon GPR-30 5-Cartridge Toner Set

A Canon GPR-30 full bank plus a held spare: GPR-30BK black rated at up to 44,000 pages and GPR-30C cyan, GPR-30M magenta, GPR-30Y yellow rated at up to 38,000 pages each, with a fifth cartridge included for on-site cover — $532.42 for five cartridges, an average of $106.48 each. It is built for production and shared departmental imageRUNNER sites where an empty slot at the wrong moment costs more than a stocked shelf. Every cartridge carries our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns; the terms are on the shipping & returns page, and the other GPR-30 combinations sit on our Canon page.

Its GPR-30 companions: the black cartridge (GPR-30BK), the yellow cartridge (GPR-30Y), the magenta cartridge (GPR-30M), the cyan cartridge (GPR-30C) and the GPR-30 8-cartridge set. This 5-cartridge set fits the ImageRunner C5051, ImageRunner Advance C5250, ImageRunner Advance C5255 and ImageRunner C5045 — every machine on the GPR-30 list takes this same cartridge family.