SKU:

CS-Kyocera-Mita_TK8309_C

Printer Brand:

Kyocera-Mita

OEM Number:

TK8309C

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

Color: 15000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

My blues and greens have gone dull — is the cyan empty?

That is the classic signature. Cyan does the heavy lifting in skies, water, logos and every green on the page, so when it fades, blues wash out and greens turn muddy while reds and text still look fine. A test page on the TASKalfa 3050ci — the same applies to the TASKalfa 3051ci, TASKalfa 3550ci and TASKalfa 3551ci — will show a pale cyan band if the TK8309C is the cartridge at the end of its life.

How do I make sure I order cyan and not another color?

Go by the code, not the cap color: TK8309C is cyan, and the C at the end is the part to verify against the label of the cartridge you remove. The sibling codes TK8309M and TK8309Y look nearly identical on a shelf, which is exactly why the letter matters more than the box art.

What page life should I expect from it?

The TK8309C is rated at 15,000 pages at standard coverage, in line with every other member of this family. A color-heavy workload — presentations, brochures, photo-rich documents — works through cyan noticeably faster than a text-heavy one, so treat the rating as the yardstick rather than a promise.

The first prints after fitting still look pale. What should I do?

Lift the cartridge out, rock it gently side to side to redistribute the toner, and seat it again firmly. Toner settles during shipping and storage, and pale first pages after a change are almost always that settling rather than a fault — a page or two of normal printing clears it.

Is this the standard cartridge or a smaller starter version?

The standard full cartridge at its complete 15,000-page rating, priced at $97.18. Nothing about it is reduced-fill; it is the same TK8309C you would reorder every time the cyan slot runs down over the machine's working life.

What protection comes with it?

A one-year warranty with one-year free returns, detailed on our shipping & returns page. It ships from whichever of our Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California warehouses is closest to you, and our support team is on hand Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

What does the cyan cost per page?

At $97.18 for a 15,000-page rating, the TK8309C works out at about 0.65 cents per page at standard coverage — the highest per-page figure in this family, because it is the priciest single cartridge of the four. That is worth knowing when you are costing color work: a presentation-heavy month draws on cyan more than any other color, so the cyan line is the one to watch in the budget, and the rating is the yardstick for ordinary documents rather than a promise for dense full-page color.

Should I keep a cyan spare before the printer even warns me?

Yes — this is the one color where an early spare earns its shelf space. Cyan underpins blues, greens and brand colors alike, so an empty cyan in the middle of a client-facing print run ruins the whole batch, not just one page. A sealed TK8309C kept within reach turns that failure into a two-minute swap, and because cyan is the color a busy office feels first, the spare is the cartridge most likely to be the one you reach for.

Can I swap the cyan in the middle of a print job?

Yes. Pause the job, slide the spent TK8309C out, fit the fresh one until it seats, and resume — the other three cartridges are not disturbed and the printer needs no reset before carrying on. The color balance comes back with the new cartridge, so pages printed after the swap match the ones before it. It is a far cheaper interruption than letting the job finish with washed-out blues and reprinting the whole run afterwards.

The new cyan is in, but the blues still look dull — what now?

Print a test page and look at the cyan band. If the band is solid and even, the cartridge is fine and the dullness lives in the document itself — a file with muted blues prints muted blues no matter how fresh the toner. If the band is still pale, lift the cartridge out, rock it gently side to side to level the settled toner, and seat it firmly again; pale first pages after a change are almost always settling rather than a fault, and a page or two of normal printing clears it.

About This TK8309C Cyan Cartridge

The TK8309C is the cyan cartridge of the TK8309 family for the TASKalfa 3050ci platform: 15,000 pages of rated life at $97.18. Cyan tends to be the color a busy office feels first — it underpins blues, greens and brand colors alike — so this is the single most color-critical spare to keep within reach. Browse the rest of the family in our Kyocera-Mita toner range.