Frequently Asked Questions

Our whole floor shares these printers — does one code really feed all of them?

Yes, if your machines are the M6035cidn and M6535cidn. Both take the black TK5152K, which is exactly why a five-pack makes sense as shared floor stock: any cartridge in the box fits whichever printer runs dry first. The five-pack is $102.11.

How should five cartridges be stored?

Flat, sealed, and in a cool, dry spot away from windows and heaters. Kept that way, toner cartridges wait patiently — the fifth box will print like the first when its turn comes.

How do we keep track of consumption across several machines?

Date each box as it is opened and note which printer took it. A simple log like that shows your true monthly burn rate within a couple of cycles, so the next order is based on evidence rather than a guess.

What happens if a cartridge from the middle of the pack is defective?

It is covered on its own: a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns apply to every cartridge in the box, whenever it is opened. Send the bad one back and keep printing from the remaining stock.

Is a five-pack a risk if our printing volume drops?

Hardly. Sealed toner does not expire on a short clock, and each TK5152K is rated at 12,000 pages under standard coverage, so the stock simply lasts longer. Nothing in the box goes to waste because a quarter ran light.

Who do we call if a printer still prints faintly after a swap?

Our support team, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST. Orders ship from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, and the practical details on delivery and returns live on our shipping and returns page.

How many pages does the whole five-pack actually put on the shelf?

Sixty thousand, on paper: five TK5152K cartridges at 12,000 rated pages each. That is the number to plan floor stock against. A floor burning through roughly 5,000 black pages a month across both machines is looking at about a year of cover from one box; a floor at half that pace doubles it. Count prints and copies together, since both draw on the same black cartridges.

What does each cartridge in the pack work out to?

The five-pack is $102.11, so each TK5152K inside it costs about $20.42 — against $35.21 for the same cartridge bought one at a time. The cartridges themselves are identical either way; the saving comes purely from ordering five at once. For a shared floor that knows it will use them, that difference is the whole argument for keeping black in depth.

One of our two machines suddenly prints far more than the other — does the shared stock still work?

Yes, and that is the point of holding the stock centrally rather than per machine. Because every cartridge in the pack fits both the M6035cidn and the M6535cidn, a busy month on one machine simply draws more boxes from the shared shelf. Just keep the opened-box log honest about which printer took what, so the hungrier machine's pace is visible when you judge the next order.

What should we do with the spent cartridges as the pack works down?

Slip each empty TK5152K back into the box its replacement came out of and keep the empties together at one collection point on the floor, rather than scattering them by machine. Toner cartridges go out through electronics and office-supply recycling routes, not the general trash. And hold onto a cartridge you suspect is faulty instead of recycling it — a bad unit needs to go back under its own warranty, not into the recycling pile.

About This Five-Pack

Bulk black toner for a small fleet: five TK5152K cartridges that standardize the M6035cidn and M6535cidn on a single supply code. One order covers change after change across every machine on the floor, and the Kyocera-Mita catalog is there when other models need feeding too.