SKU:

CLS-HP-PRO MFP M176-C

Printer Brand:

Hewlett Packard

OEM Number:

CF351A

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

Color: 1000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

What does CF351A on the box confirm for my M176?

It confirms you have the cyan cartridge. CF351A is the cyan member of HP's 130A family, and this listing — a single cyan cartridge for $36.41 — is written specifically around the LaserJet Pro MFP M176 named in its title. Cyan is the only colour inside; the yellow and magenta your printer uses are separate cartridges with separate codes.

If my scans look perfect but my prints look wrong, where is the problem?

In the toner, not the scanner. Scanning reads a page with light and uses no toner at all, so a scan can look flawless on the same day that printed colour has gone badly astray. When the printed version of a page shifts colour but the scanned version does not, the fault sits in a cartridge — and if the shift is toward pink and purple in place of blue, that cartridge is the cyan CF351A.

Why do holiday photos of the sea and sky print pink on this machine?

Because blue is a two-cartridge colour: cyan plus magenta. With cyan nearly empty, magenta prints almost unopposed and the Mediterranean turns violet, swimming pools go lilac, and clear skies take on a sunset tint that was never in the photograph. Greens made from cyan and yellow lose their freshness at the same time. A fresh CF351A brings the blues back to blue.

How can I be sure cyan — not another colour — is the one to order?

Print the supplies status page from the printer and read the cyan level against the others, then look at a colour sample with fresh eyes: purplish blues and yellowish greens together point to cyan, while orange-looking reds point to magenta and bluish greens point to yellow. Two minutes with that page is cheaper than guessing, and it tells you whether this $36.41 cartridge is the right fix.

What will 1,000 pages of cyan mean on a compact home-and-office MFP?

The rating is 1,000 pages at standard coverage. On a machine like the M176, which typically mixes everyday documents with the occasional colour copy, photo or school project, cyan tends to be spent in bursts — untouched for weeks of plain text, then drawn on heavily by a single photo-heavy afternoon. Faxing in black and white and scanning spend none of it at all.

What protection does this cartridge carry after it arrives?

A 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns protect it: if the cartridge fails during its first year, sending it back costs you nothing. Questions before or after fitting are answered Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST.

About This CF351A Cyan Cartridge for the M176

The LaserJet Pro MFP M176 earns its place on a small desk by doing several jobs at once — printing, colour copying, scanning and faxing — yet only the printing and copying sides ever touch this cartridge. That split is what makes cyan trouble on this machine so confusing, and so easy to diagnose once you know scans cannot fade. This CF351A, a 1,000-page 130A cyan cartridge at $36.41, addresses the one station behind the purple skies and pink-tinted prints, leaving the M176's other cartridges to finish their own work.

Delivery runs from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA; the shipping & returns page sets out timescales and how a return is handled. For the other colours and supplies belonging to this machine, start from the store's HP section.