Frequently Asked Questions

Who buys black toner three cartridges at a time?

Copy rooms and department administrators who would rather order once a quarter than once a crisis. Three TK8507K cartridges at $337.21 cover a full season of black printing for a hard-working TASKalfa, and the purchase happens on your schedule instead of the printer's.

Is the TK8507 the same supply as the TK8507K on my machine's label?

Yes — TK8507 is the family name and TK8507K is the full designation for the black cartridge; the K marks it as the black unit. If your supply status shows TK8507K, this is the cartridge it is asking for in the TASKalfa 4550ci, TASKalfa 4551ci or TASKalfa 5550ci.

How do I rotate three cartridges so none sits forgotten?

Write the delivery month on each box when the pack arrives and always open the oldest box first. Because each cartridge is rated at 30,000 pages, a simple page-counter note at each change tells you roughly when the third box will be needed.

If the second cartridge I open has a problem, is it still covered?

Yes. The coverage runs a full year, so a cartridge opened months after delivery is still protected by the 1-year warranty, and returns are free for a year as well. A fault in one unit is handled on that unit — you do not have to send back the rest of the pack.

Will output look the same from the first cartridge to the third?

That is the point of buying a matched pack: every TK8507K in it is the same cartridge from the same supply line, so contracts, invoices and reports keep a consistent black density instead of shifting whenever a different brand of toner goes in.

Where does the pack ship from, and who do I call with a question?

We ship from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, choosing the closest stock for your address. Support is available Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and delivery timing plus return instructions are laid out on our shipping and returns page.

How much black printing does a three-pack actually cover?

Three TK8507K cartridges at 30,000 rated pages each give you a 90,000-page pool of black printing at standard coverage. For a department printing, say, 7,500 black pages a month, that pool is roughly a year of output; at 15,000 a month it is about six months. Framing the pack as a page pool, measured against your own monthly counter readings, is what turns three boxes on a shelf into a forecast you can put in a budget.

What is the per-cartridge cost inside this pack?

The three-pack is $337.21, which divides to about $112.40 per TK8507K — a lower unit cost than the smaller pack sizes — and works out at roughly 0.37 cents per page against the 30,000-page rating. For a copy room reporting cost per page to management, that is the honest figure to use: it is the price actually paid per cartridge in this pack, spread over the rated life, before your own coverage habits pull it up or down.

What should be checked when a three-pack is delivered?

Count and read before the boxes join the stock: three units, every label reading TK8507K, every seal unbroken, no crushed corners suggesting a drop in transit. With a pack this size, a problem found at the delivery bench is a quick conversation; the same problem found months later, when the third box is opened during a busy run, costs far more time. A delivery-month note on each box at the same moment also sets up the rotation the pack will be used in.

How does a three-pack change the ordering routine?

It moves black toner from a reaction to a rhythm. Instead of a purchase raised each time the TASKalfa warns, the department orders once, works through a known 90,000-page pool, and raises the next order when the last box is opened — on a schedule purchasing can see coming. For administrators reporting quarterly, the pack also lands as a single line item per season rather than a scatter of small emergency orders, which is how the three-pack earns its place in a copy room.

About This 3 Pack

Three compatible Kyocera-Mita TK8507K black toner cartridges for the TASKalfa 4550ci, 4551ci and 5550ci, packaged for quarterly stocking rather than emergency ordering. Each cartridge carries a 30,000-page rating, the set is priced at $337.21, and every unit is backed by a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns.