SKU:

CS-HP-16A-4BK

Printer Brand:

Hewlett Packard

OEM Number:

Q7516A

Ink Color:

Black

Page Yield:

Black: 12000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

What arrives in the four-pack?

Four individually sealed black Q7516A cartridges, each rated at 12,000 pages, for machines in the LaserJet 5200 series. It is a site stock, not a home quantity: four large cartridges intended to sit in a store room and be drawn down, one at a time, by whichever department printer calls for one.

Which kind of site buys toner four at a time?

Sites where the 5200 is infrastructure: a facilities-managed office, a school district print room, a warehouse office printing pick documents and reports all day. When downtime costs more than shelf space, buying the year's likely consumption in one order is simply tidier administration — one purchase order, one delivery, no recurring errand.

How do we rotate four cartridges properly?

Oldest first, fitted one at a time, with the remainder kept sealed and flat in a cool, dry store. Toner does not degrade on the shelf, so rotation here is about stock discipline rather than quality: when the shelf count drops to one, that is the moment to place the next order.

Can the stock be pooled across several printers?

Yes — pooling is the point. Every machine that takes the Q7516A draws from the same shelf, and each printer accounts only for the cartridge inside it. A pooled stock of four absorbs an uneven year gracefully: the busy machine takes two, the quiet one takes none, and nobody had to predict which in advance.

What protection covers a bulk buy like this?

Each cartridge individually: a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, set out on our shipping and returns page. A faulty unit is returned and resolved on its own without unravelling the rest of the purchase. We ship from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, and support is staffed Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

Is $164.76 the complete cost of all four?

It is. No drum purchase hides behind it — the imaging drum is inside each cartridge — and no service plan or subscription attaches itself to the order. The four-pack price is one line, once, for four cartridges that will keep departmental printing running for a very long time.

About This HP 16A 4-Pack

Annual thinking for a departmental printer: four compatible Q7516A cartridges, $164.76 the pack, in the HP toner cartridges range at Clever Supplies. Sites that run a LaserJet 5200 as shared infrastructure buy toner the same way they buy paper — in sensible bulk, stored where it is needed, and forgotten about until the shelf says otherwise.

Fitted models, in full: the LaserJet 5200, the LaserJet 5200dtn and the LaserJet 5200tn. The family rounds out with the 16A single (Q7516A), the 16A two-pack and the extended-yield Jumbo 16A two-pack (Q7516AJ), each listed on its own page.