SKU:

CS-HP-5550hdn-Y

Printer Brand:

Hewlett Packard

OEM Number:

C9732A

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

Color: 12000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Is C9732A the right yellow for the 5550hdn, or a near match?

It is the exact cartridge. C9732A is the yellow unit of the 645A family, and the stamp on the cartridge you remove will read the same code. Near matches are not part of the equation — the code either matches or it does not.

We reprint stored poster jobs from the printer's disk months later. Will the yellow match the original run?

Stored jobs hold their color settings, so a reprint asks the new cartridge to reproduce the old one's yellow. A fresh cartridge at full strength does this well; a tired one is where reprints start looking washed out next to the originals on the wall.

Why do warm food photos lean so heavily on this one cartridge?

Yellows, golds and oranges — bread, cheese, fries, autumn produce — are built largely from the yellow channel. A menu or poster run full of food photography can spend this cartridge faster than any other color in the machine.

Output fades toward the end of a long poster run. What is that telling us?

Even fading across a long run is the supply running out in real time. The hdn's stored-job workflow makes it easy to pause, swap the cartridge in about a minute, and restart the job where it stopped.

How should we read the 12,000-page rating for poster work?

As a ceiling, not a promise. Large-format color areas carry several times the coverage of an office page, so count poster runs in hundreds of sheets against the cartridge and watch the supply gauge during a production week.

What comes with this cartridge besides the toner?

Backup in the form of a 1-year warranty plus 1-year free returns. Orders are dispatched from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, support answers Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the shipping and returns page sets out the terms in full.

About This Yellow Cartridge for the Color LaserJet 5550hdn

This C9732A yellow cartridge, $166.60 and rated for 12,000 pages, serves the HP Color LaserJet 5550hdn where that model's disk earns its keep: menus, posters and display pieces stored on the machine and reprinted on demand, every reprint needing the same warm yellow as the run before it. It is bought by production corners that cannot afford for this month's poster to look paler than last month's.