Frequently Asked Questions

How long does a 38,000-page cyan actually stay in the machine?

Long enough that it changes how you plan. The GPR-30C is rated at up to 38,000 pages, so on a departmental imageRUNNER turning out a few thousand color pages a month, one cartridge can serve the better part of a year; on a true production queue it still measures its life in months, not weeks. The practical consequence is that cyan replacement becomes a scheduled event you prepare for, not a recurring interruption you react to.

What does the cyan share of a color page cost here?

Roughly 0.32 cents at standard coverage — $122.73 spread across the 38,000-page rating. Heavy blue coverage pulls the real figure up, since the rating is struck at 5% coverage per color, but for the report, chart and presentation work these machines mostly run, that is the honest planning number.

Which parts of the page is cyan responsible for?

Every blue and every green. Cyan is the base ink of the cool spectrum: corporate blues, sky and water in photographs, the blue series in charts, and — mixed with yellow — all greens. When a GPR-30C finally fades, the complaint rarely mentions cyan; it arrives as "the blues look washed" or "the greens have gone yellow," and the test page settles which cartridge is really at fault.

Are the three GPR-30 colors priced differently?

No — in this family the cyan, magenta and yellow singles all stand at $122.73 with the same 38,000-page rating, so there is no price puzzle to solve between them. What still saves money is buying them together: the 3-color set undercuts the three singles by $36.99 when the whole color bank is due.

How does cyan's life compare with the black's?

The GPR-30 black is rated at 44,000 pages, the highest in the family, so the colors — cyan included — will normally cycle first on color work. Each cartridge is independent, though: a cyan is changed when the cyan is done, not on anyone else's schedule.

What backs a compatible cartridge at this yield and price?

A 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, applied per cartridge. If a GPR-30C fails early or prints badly, it is replaced or returned on those terms. Our support team is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and stock ships from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California — domestic warehouses, so a replacement is days away, not weeks.

About This Canon GPR-30 Cyan Cartridge

A single compatible Canon GPR-30C cyan toner cartridge, rated at up to 38,000 pages, for the color imageRUNNER production and departmental machines that run the GPR-30 family. It sits in a bank with the GPR-30BK black (44,000 pages), the GPR-30M magenta and the GPR-30Y yellow, each replaced independently. Priced at $122.73 and covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns — full terms on the shipping & returns page. The whole GPR-30 family is listed on our Canon page.

This cyan cartridge (GPR-30C) is built for the ImageRunner C5045, ImageRunner C5051, ImageRunner Advance C5250, and ImageRunner Advance C5255. Rounding out the GPR-30 range are the black cartridge (GPR-30BK), the yellow cartridge (GPR-30Y), the magenta cartridge (GPR-30M), and the GPR-30 4-cartridge set.