Frequently Asked Questions

Who orders ten cartridges of a compact printer's toner at once?

Sites running several of these small printers: a school with a LaserJet in every office, a dealership with printers at multiple desks, a property manager supplying satellite locations. The whole M102 and M130 family shares the CF217A, so one bulk pack feeds every machine on the site.

Is every cartridge in the box the same part?

Identical — ten compatible CF217A black cartridges, rated at 1,600 pages each. A technician can hand any box to any location without checking which printer it is headed for. The part number you verify once is the part number every desk uses.

How do we rotate ten cartridges without waste?

Store the boxes in delivery order, issue oldest first, and mark the arrival date on the outer carton. Kept sealed in a normal indoor storeroom, toner cartridges wait patiently. Issue one at a time rather than scattering spares, and the stock count stays honest.

How do we know when to reorder a pack this size?

Set the trigger by boxes, not printer warnings: when the third-from-last box is issued, place the next order. Fleet consumption of these compact printers is steady once established, and a ten-pack typically covers a long, quiet stretch between orders.

What coverage backs a bulk purchase like this?

Every cartridge carries a 1-year warranty, and our 1-year free returns policy covers the pack, so a defective unit among the ten is handled on its own merits. We ship from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, and support answers Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

Does one of our printers being a multifunction model change anything?

No. M130 machines print, copy and fax from the same CF217A cartridge that M102 printers use for printing alone. Bulk stock needs no subdividing by model — a single shelf serves the whole fleet.

About This CF217A Black Toner 10-Pack

This 10-pack of compatible CF217A (17A) black cartridges, priced at $120.11, is the stockroom format for the compact HP LaserJet Pro family, from the LaserJet M102a up through the M130 multifunction range. Ten identical 1,600-page cartridges turn a scattered fleet into a single, simple supply line.

For facilities managers, the appeal is a disappearing chore: no per-desk orders, no emergency purchases, no printer idle for want of a cartridge that costs less than the meeting it delayed. One box in the storeroom, issued in order, keeps every desk printing.

Owners of the LaserJet Pro M102w use this cartridge too - the two M102 models share one supply, so the fitment is broader than a single model name suggests. Heavier printers can step up to the CF217AJ Jumbo cartridge, the longer-life Jumbo version of this same cartridge; and when print quality fades with a fresh cartridge fitted, the part to look at is the CF219A imaging drum, the separate drum this family pairs with.