Frequently Asked Questions

Who plans toner eight cartridges at a time?

An operation that has stopped treating toner as an errand. This set holds two complete GPR-30 banks — GPR-30BK black (44,000 pages), GPR-30C cyan, GPR-30M magenta and GPR-30Y yellow (38,000 pages each), twice — which is two full refresh cycles for one machine, or the first full cycle for two. Its natural home is a production print room, a multi-machine department, or any site buying against a quarterly or annual budget line.

What does buying at this depth do to the unit cost?

It produces the family's lowest per-cartridge average: $105.64 — $845.14 across the eight. Measured against assembling the same stock piecemeal, two 4-color sets would total $863.62, so the 8-cartridge listing saves $18.48 before counting the ordering and receiving effort it removes.

How does one large order simplify procurement?

One approval, one delivery, one invoice, two cycles settled. In organizations where each purchase crosses a desk for sign-off, that compression is a genuine operational saving — and it eliminates the most common refresh failure we hear about: the machine idle, the toner empty, and the replacement order still waiting in someone's approval queue.

How should stock of this size be issued to machines?

Oldest-first, with a note of what went where. Keep the cartons sealed, flat and date-marked; when a bank is installed, log the machine and the date. With ratings of 38,000 to 44,000 pages, each bank lasts a long while, and the log is what keeps the second bank a managed reserve rather than a forgotten box discovered during a clear-out.

Will the stock be consumed evenly across colors and black?

No, and the set absorbs that. Each cycle the 38,000-page colors will finish ahead of the 44,000-page black on color work, so consumption tilts color-led as the stock runs down. Holding both banks from the outset means that drift never becomes a crisis — every slot's replacement is already in the building.

What if a cartridge from deep in the stock proves faulty?

Each of the eight is covered individually by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, claimed on its own without disturbing the remaining stock. Support is staffed 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 8-Cartridge Toner Set

The deep-stock Canon GPR-30 listing: two full toner banks — 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, all in duplicate — eight cartridges for $845.14, the family's lowest average at $105.64 per cartridge. It is sized for production print rooms, multi-machine departments and budget-cycle buyers running color imageRUNNER equipment. Every cartridge is covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns; terms are set out on the shipping & returns page, and the smaller GPR-30 listings are alongside it on our Canon page.

The machines behind this 8-cartridge set are the ImageRunner Advance C5250, ImageRunner Advance C5255, ImageRunner C5045, and ImageRunner C5051. The rest of the GPR-30 family: the black cartridge (GPR-30BK), the yellow cartridge (GPR-30Y), the magenta cartridge (GPR-30M), the cyan cartridge (GPR-30C), and the GPR-30 4-cartridge set.