Frequently Asked Questions
Let's do the arithmetic: what does a Dell 1700 page cost when it comes from this 5-pack?
About 1.07¢. The pack costs $319.92 and holds five 310-5402 cartridges rated at 6,000 pages each — 30,000 pages of capacity. Divide one by the other and you get 1.07¢ per page, the lowest rate this printer family offers short of the 10-pack. Compare like with like: the same cartridge bought singly works out to 1.31¢ per page. Across the 30,000 pages in this box, that difference is roughly $72 — money that buys exactly nothing extra when spent, because the cartridges themselves are identical.
Where does the pack's saving actually come from?
From buying the same cartridges in one shipment instead of five. Five singles at $78.57 total $392.85. This pack is $319.92. The difference, $72.93, is the volume discount doing its ordinary work — it is not a different cartridge, a reduced fill or a lesser rating. Per cartridge the price slides from $78.57 to $63.98, and every step of that slide is pure purchasing efficiency. If your office goes through these cartridges anyway, the saving is not a promotion to catch; it is simply the cheaper route to stock you were always going to use.
What does the pack contain in page terms?
30,000 rated pages: five cartridges, 6,000 pages each, measured at the standard 5% coverage the industry rates by. Translate it into time and it depends on volume — a Dell Laser 1700 printing 1,000 pages a month takes two and a half years to exhaust the pack; at 2,500 pages a month, a year. Real coverage runs heavier than 5% on many office documents, so treat those horizons as the generous end. Even discounted for heavy printing, this is a purchase an office makes a handful of times, not a monthly habit.
Which printers do the five cartridges fit?
The 310-5402 platform: the Laser 1700 named on this listing, the Laser 1700n and the Laser 1710. All five cartridges are the one code those three machines share, so the pack can be dedicated to a single hardworking 1700 or drawn on by any combination of family machines. The label on the cartridge you are replacing will read 310-5402 — the same code printed on every unit in this pack.
Is there a catch at this price — a smaller fill, a different cartridge?
No, and the question deserves a straight answer. The 310-5402 cartridges in this pack are the same high-yield units sold singly on this site: same 6,000-page rating, same specification, same warranty, same returns cover. Pack pricing across this family — 2-pack, 3-pack, 5-pack, 10-pack — steps the per-cartridge price down as the quantity rises, and that is the whole mechanism. If a price ever did rest on a reduced fill or a different rating, this page would say so in numbers; here the numbers are simply better.
What stands behind the pack after purchase?
A 1-year warranty against defects on every cartridge and 1-year free returns if a cartridge does not perform as it should — the terms are set out on our shipping and returns page. These are compatible cartridges built to the 310-5402 specification rather than Dell-manufactured stock, and the cover applies to each cartridge individually. For anything else, our support team is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This Dell 1700 5-Pack
A 5-pack of compatible high-yield black cartridges for the Dell Laser 1700: five 310-5402 cartridges at 6,000 rated pages each — 30,000 pages total — for $319.92, which is $63.98 per cartridge, about 1.07¢ per page, and $72.93 saved against five singles. The cartridges also serve the Laser 1700n and Laser 1710. The pack ships from one of our four US warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. The rest of the range is on our Dell toner page.
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