Frequently Asked Questions

How should a stock of three cartridges be rotated so none sits too long?

First in, first out. Keep the three 331-0778 cartridges in the order they arrived, install the oldest when the Dell 1250 needs one, and let the newer units wait sealed behind it. Toner does not spoil quickly — a sealed cartridge in a cool, dry drawer is good for a long shelf life — but rotation keeps your stock honest and ensures every unit gets used well inside its warranty window. A strip of tape with the arrival date on each box removes all guesswork.

What is the per-cartridge price in this pack?

$40.95 for three works out to $13.65 per cartridge, and the per-page figure drops to about 0.68 cents across the pack's 6,000 rated pages. Set against three singles at $25.98 each — $77.94 in total — the 3-pack saves $36.99. This family's pricing adds each cartridge after the first for roughly $7.49, which is why the unit cost falls so far by the third one.

When should we order the next pack?

When you install the last cartridge of the three. At that moment you still have up to 2,000 pages in the machine — weeks or months of printing on a 1250-series printer — which is a comfortable window for a delivery from our IL, PA, GA or CA warehouses to arrive. Reordering on the last unit rather than on an empty printer is the whole discipline this pack size enables: the alarm bell never rings.

Can one 3-pack stock more than one printer?

Yes, if the printers share this cartridge — and across the Dell 1250 family they do. The 331-0778 is the high-yield black for the 1250c, 1350cnw, 1355cn and 1355cnw, the 1755nf and 1755nfw, and the C1760nw and C1765nf alike. An office with two or three of these machines scattered across desks can hold this single pack as common stock, instead of a separate shelf of look-alike cartridges per printer.

Is every cartridge in the pack the same 331-0778?

Yes — three identical compatible black cartridges, each rated at up to 2,000 pages, each built to the same specification. There is no mixing of standard-fill and high-yield units inside the pack, and no difference between the cartridge you install today and the one you install next quarter. If a listing ever mixed fills, the page maths on this page would not hold; here it does, three times over.

What if one of the three turns out faulty?

It goes back under the same terms as if you had bought it alone: a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns cover every unit in the pack, whether it fails in the first week or when its turn comes months later. The details are on our shipping & returns page, and support is staffed Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Dell 1250 Black 3-Pack (331-0778)

A 3-pack of compatible high-yield black toner cartridges for the Dell 1250 series, part number 331-0778: up to 2,000 pages per cartridge, 6,000 pages altogether, priced at $40.95 — $13.65 a cartridge, about 0.68 cents per rated page, and $36.99 saved against three singles. One pack stocks every machine in the family, including the 1250c, 1350cnw, 1355cnw, 1755nf, 1755nfw, C1760nw and C1765nf. It ships from IL, PA, GA or CA under a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns. See the rest of the range on our Dell page.