Frequently Asked Questions

Why does the cyan cartridge seem to run out before the others?

On most office machines, cyan does the quiet heavy lifting. Sky tones, water, corporate blues, charts and logos all lean on cyan, and many business documents use far more blue than people realise. If your SP C430DN prints brochures, presentations or anything with a blue-heavy design, it is normal for cyan to be the first color the machine asks for. One cartridge is rated for 24,000 pages, so a single replacement restores a long runway before you have to think about it again.

Will this cartridge work in my printer?

Yes — this cyan cartridge is made for the Ricoh SP C430DN, and it is the color cartridge rated at 24,000 pages for that machine. It is a single cyan cartridge only; the black cartridge for the SP C430DN is sold separately and is not included here. If your printer is a different Ricoh model, check the model name on the front of the machine before ordering, because Ricoh color cartridges are model-specific.

What does 24,000 pages actually mean in daily use?

The 24,000-page rating follows the standard 5% coverage test — roughly a short letter or a page with a modest graphic. Real life varies: a page with a full-color header and a photo uses much more cyan than a plain memo. As a rough guide, an office printing around 100 color pages a day would get many months from one cartridge, while a marketing team printing color pieces all day will move through it faster. The rating is best used to compare cartridges, not as a promise for any single page.

What does each page cost with this cartridge?

At $91.70 for 24,000 rated pages, the cyan works out to about 0.38 cents per page for the cyan portion of your printing. That is the figure worth comparing when you are deciding between keeping this machine supplied and letting color work go to an outside print shop, where a single color page usually costs many times more. Keeping a genuine-yield cartridge in the machine also avoids the faded, washed-out blues you get when a cartridge is stretched past its rated life.

What if the cartridge arrives faulty or my prints look wrong?

Every cartridge we sell is covered by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. If cyan prints come out streaky, pale or the cartridge is not recognized properly, contact us and we will put it right under the terms on our shipping and returns page. Support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST, and it helps to keep the cartridge and its box until you have run a few test pages.

How quickly will my order get to me?

We ship from four warehouses — in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California — so orders are dispatched from the location that makes sense for your address rather than crossing the whole country. That keeps transit times short when a machine is sitting idle waiting on cyan. If you run color work daily, ordering when the low-toner warning first appears, rather than when the cartridge is empty, is the simplest way to avoid a gap.

About This Cyan Cartridge

This is a single compatible cyan toner cartridge for the Ricoh SP C430DN, rated at 24,000 pages, at $91.70 — about 0.38 cents per page. Cyan carries the blues, skies and water tones in your color output, which is why it is often the first color to need replacing on this machine. The black cartridge is sold separately. You can see the wider range for this printer family on our Ricoh toner page. Every cartridge is backed by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, with support Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST.

Aficio SP C431DN-HS, Aficio SP C431DNHT, Aficio SP C431DNHW, Aficio SP C430DN and Aficio SP C431DN share one supply: the 821108. Partner cartridges for the platform: the magenta 821107 cartridge, the yellow 821106 cartridge and the single 821105 black cartridge.