Frequently Asked Questions

Who actually buys black toner five cartridges at a time?

Offices where the 2130 or 2135 is infrastructure rather than an appliance: a printer shared by a department, one of several identical Dell machines on a floor, or any workplace where a toner stoppage lands on someone's deadline. Five 330-1436 cartridges hold 12,500 rated pages of black, and at this quantity the per-cartridge price is the lowest this family offers. It is a stocking decision, not a shopping one — made by whoever keeps the supplies shelf, precisely so nobody else has to think about toner for a long stretch.

What does the per-cartridge price fall to in this pack?

To about $12.51 — less than half the $27.30 charged for the same 330-1436 bought singly. Five singles would total $136.50; the pack is $62.53, saving $73.97, and the running cost works out to roughly 0.50 cents per rated page. The ladder in this family is unusually steep: $27.30 singly, about $18.06 in a pair, $14.97 in a three, and $12.51 here. Volume is the whole discount story, stated plainly.

Can one 5-pack stock more than one printer?

Yes, where the machines match. The 330-1436 serves the Dell Color Laser 2130, 2130cn, 2135 and 2135cn, so a shelf holding this pack can feed any mix of those models — a common arrangement where an office standardized on this Dell family. One stock line, one reorder point, and no drawer full of near-identical cartridges for different printers.

How do we manage five cartridges without losing track?

Treat the pack as a small stock system rather than a box. Keep the units sealed, stored flat in a cool dry place, and use them strictly in arrival order. Set the reorder trigger at the loading of the fourth cartridge: at that point one spare remains in hand and a fresh order has comfortable time to arrive. That discipline is what turns a bulk buy into an uninterrupted supply rather than five cartridges that somehow all run out in the same month.

Are these genuine Dell cartridges?

No — they are compatible 330-1436 cartridges, manufactured by a third party to Dell's specification for the 2130 and 2135 families. Every figure on this page — the $62.53 pack price, the per-cartridge and per-page costs, the 2,500-page rating of each unit — describes these compatible cartridges, not Dell's branded version.

What warranty and returns cover a pack this size?

Each of the five cartridges carries a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns on the same terms as a single, so a faulty unit anywhere in the pack is returnable. Our support team is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the full policy is published on the shipping & returns page. Stock is dispatched from our warehouses in IL, PA, GA or CA.

Before issuing five cartridges to a department, how can we prove the batch in practice?

Fit the first 330-1436 and watch it across its first few days of real work. A cartridge printing at full, even density through ordinary jobs confirms the stock far better than any label; once the first unit has proven itself, the remaining four can be issued to the shelf with confidence, and any surprise later is a single-unit question rather than a batch question.

Can the five cartridges be split between two floors of the same building?

Yes. The units are identical and independent, so holding three near the department printer and two in a central store works well — as long as one person owns the combined count. The risk in split stock is not the split; it is two locations each assuming the other still holds spares. One shared count, updated at each issue, removes it.

How do issue dates reveal which printer in the fleet is the heavy drinker?

Write the date and the machine on the box end as each 330-1436 is issued. Reviewed over the pack's life, the record shows real consumption per machine: a printer taking a cartridge every two months beside identical machines taking one a quarter is either much busier or wasting toner, and either way it is the one to plan around.

How should we expect the five ratings to play out across a department's mixed workload?

Unevenly. Each 330-1436 is rated at 2,500 pages at standard coverage, but a department's mix — text days, presentation days, photo-heavy days — means real life per cartridge may range widely around that figure. The pack smooths this out: variance that would strand a single-cartridge buyer in the middle of a job simply draws the next unit off the shelf.

About This Dell 2130 Black Toner 5-Pack (330-1436)

A 5-pack of compatible black toner cartridges for the Dell Color Laser 2130 family, part number 330-1436: five units rated at up to 2,500 pages each, 12,500 pages in total, for $62.53 — about $12.51 a cartridge, roughly 0.50 cents per rated page, and $73.97 below the cost of five singles. It ships from IL, PA, GA or CA under a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns. Browse the wider range on our Dell page.