SKU:

CS-HP-212A-CLJ-M578F-M

Printer Brand:

Hewlett Packard

OEM Number:

W2123A

Ink Color:

Magenta

Page Yield:

Color: 4500

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I tell this listing is magenta?

By its code: W2123A is the magenta position in the HP 212A family. The platform's black, cyan, magenta and yellow each carry distinct codes, and magenta's is this one — check it against the spent unit and the identity is settled.

Berry desserts and tomato dishes print dull and brownish — cartridge trouble?

That is magenta starvation. Warm food photography leans heavily on the magenta channel; as it empties, reds lose their appetite appeal and drift toward brown. A supplies-page reading with magenta near empty confirms the cause before you blame the photographs.

What yield does magenta promise?

A rating of 4,500 pages at the standard coverage figure. Menus are dense with photography, so real consumption runs faster — laminate-worthy output spends colour like a poster, not like a memo. Let the gauge, not the rating, time the reorder.

Will fitting magenta alone fix the menu colours?

If magenta is the depleted channel, yes. The printer recalibrates after the change and warm tones return across the page, while the other stations carry on untouched. Proof one menu before the full laminated batch, as habit.

What cover does the $81.71 price carry?

The unit is protected by a 1-year warranty, with 1-year free returns should it arrive faulty. We post from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, and support answers Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST. Full shipping and returns information is on the shipping and returns page.

Menus change seasonally — should the spare wait for the new menu?

Fit it when the warning lands rather than saving it for the relaunch; a fresh channel makes even the old menu look better in the meantime, and the rated life is generous enough to span seasons.

About This W2123A Magenta Cartridge

Appetite is a colour, and on a menu it is mostly magenta. This W2123A feeds the warm channel of printers such as the Color LaserJet Enterprise M554dn, one sealed unit rated for thousands of rich pages. When the food starts looking tired before the customers do, the magenta gauge will tell you why — and this is the code that fixes it. Cafés reprint menus more often than they expect — a spill here, a price change there — and each small run draws on the same magenta warmth that sells the food. A second machine in the office is no complication: COLOR LASERJET M555DN and COLOR LASERJET M555X take the same cartridge, and so do COLOR LASERJET M578C, COLOR LASERJET M578DN, COLOR LASERJET M578F and COLOR LASERJET M578Z. The family is fully listed: the black W2120A, the cyan W2121A and the yellow W2122A for the other slots, the high-yield W2123X — the 212X magenta for a longer run in this one, and the 212A four-colour set when everything is due together.