Frequently Asked Questions

What does a page cost at this pack size?

Five GPR-43 cartridges give 151,000 rated pages for $171.43 — about 0.11 cents per page, with the per-cartridge price down to $34.29 against $49.08 for a single. Against five single purchases the pack saves $73.97. In a copy room where black output is measured in tens of thousands of pages, that per-page figure is the one that matters.

Who is a 5-pack actually for?

Environments where the imageRUNNER is a production tool, not an office accessory: copy rooms, print-for-pay corners, busy departmental machines that run all day. If your machine prints a few hundred pages a week, be honest with the maths — a 151,000-page stockpile will sit for years, and a smaller pack is the better buy.

How should five cartridges be rotated?

First in, first out. Keep the cartridges sealed and stored flat in a cool, dry place, load the oldest one when a change is due, and move the rest forward. Rotation means no cartridge spends excessive time on the shelf while newer stock gets used ahead of it.

Does buying five at once change the warranty position?

No. Every GPR43BK cartridge in the pack is a compatible cartridge covered by the same one-year warranty and one-year free returns as a single purchase. If one unit misbehaves, that unit is the claim — the rest of the pack is unaffected. See the shipping and returns page for the terms.

We also stock GPR-38 cartridges — any risk of mixing them up?

Only a housekeeping one. The GPR-43 and GPR-38 fit different imageRUNNER machines and cannot be exchanged, so keep the shelf labeled by code — GPR43BK for this family — and there is no way to load the wrong family's cartridge into a machine that does not take it.

Where does a 5-pack ship from?

From whichever of our four warehouses — IL, PA, GA or CA — serves you fastest. Support is on hand Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if you want to check stock or timing before a big run.

Most of our output is double-sided — how many sheets does this pack really cover?

About 75,500. The pack's 151,000 pages are counted as printed sides, and each duplex sheet carries two sides, so the sheet count is half the page count. Toner consumption follows the sides, which is why a duplex department should size and time its GPR-43 orders from the machine's side totals. Counted that way, the 5-pack's life in your building becomes predictable rather than surprising.

How should the first cartridge from this pack be proven?

Print a document the department knows intimately — the standard form or report whose density everyone recognizes — and compare the new cartridge's rendering of it across the page. Familiar work exposes unevenness that a test page can hide. Give it the first few ordinary jobs rather than judging sheet one, and a cartridge that matches the known-good output has proven itself for the run ahead.

Several of our machines take the GPR-43 — how do we issue from one 5-pack?

Hold it as one stock, issued strictly by code, and write the machine and date on each box as it leaves the shelf. Identical GPR43BK units can go to whichever machine calls first, and the notes on the boxes keep each machine's draw visible: which one consumes fastest, and how the shared stock is trending. That visibility is what lets one pack serve a small fleet without arguments about where the cartridges went.

When should the next order be raised?

When the fourth cartridge of the five goes into a machine. A full cartridge of output remains in service at that point, which is ample runway for a routine purchase — and raising the order then keeps the pattern this pack was bought to create: toner arriving as a planned delivery, never as an emergency response to a machine standing idle in a busy copy room.

About This Canon GPR-43 Black Toner Cartridge 5-Pack

Five compatible Canon GPR-43 black cartridges (GPR43BK), 30,200 rated pages each: 151,000 pages for $171.43, or $34.29 per cartridge and about 0.11 cents per page. This is the production-volume rung of the GPR-43 ladder for imageRUNNER machines on that family; GPR-42 and GPR-38 cartridges serve different machines. One-year warranty and one-year free returns apply to every cartridge, and the rest of the range is on our Canon toner page.