Frequently Asked Questions
Five of us print to the same 1700N — how long does one cartridge last a whole team?
Work it out from the rating. This 310-5402 cartridge is rated at 6,000 pages, and a five-person team sharing a Dell Laser 1700N typically prints somewhere between 1,000 and 2,500 pages a month between them — reports, invoices, correspondence, the odd long document nobody owns up to. At 1,500 pages a month, one cartridge carries the team for about four months; at the lighter end, closer to six. The useful habit for a shared machine is to note the date a cartridge goes in: after the first cycle you know your team's real consumption, and reordering stops being guesswork.
Why does a shared printer seem to eat toner faster than the rating suggests?
Because the rating assumes a standard page. The 6,000-page figure is measured at 5% coverage — a typical typed page. A shared 1700N prints everyone's everything: the plain memos sit near 5%, but the spreadsheet with shaded rows, the presentation handout and the scanned form sit well above it, and every one of those pages draws down the cartridge faster than the rating's pace. Nothing is wrong with the cartridge; the team's mix is simply heavier than the yardstick page. It is also why one person's "the toner never lasts" is usually a comment about the office's documents, not the supply.
What does the team's printing work out to per page?
At the listed $78.57 for 6,000 rated pages, about 1.31¢ per page — and that is the number that matters for a shared machine, because it is the same whoever pressed print. Spread across a five-person team, a cartridge is a modest shared overhead rather than anyone's personal expense, and the 310-5402's high-yield fill keeps the per-page figure at the low end of what this printer family can do. If your office allocates print costs by department, 1.31¢ a page is a defensible, simple rate to work with.
Which machines can this cartridge go into?
Any of the Dell 1700-series mono lasers that take the 310-5402: the Laser 1700, the Laser 1700n named on this listing, and the Laser 1710. The three models share one supply platform, so the cartridge on the shelf for the shared 1700N is the same cartridge a colleague's 1710 uses. Check the supply list in your printer's documentation or the label on the cartridge you are removing — if it says 310-5402, you are looking at the right replacement.
Should a shared machine keep a spare cartridge on hand?
For a printer five people depend on, yes — it is the cheapest insurance in the office. A shared machine never runs dry at a convenient moment; it runs dry during the end-of-month run. A sealed spare sitting in the supply cupboard turns a two-day wait into a two-minute swap, and sealed cartridges store without any fuss until they are needed. Most offices running a 1700N as a team printer settle into exactly that rhythm: one cartridge in the machine, one on the shelf, reorder when the spare goes in.
What if the cartridge gives trouble?
It is covered two ways: a 1-year warranty against defects, and 1-year free returns if the cartridge does not perform as it should — details are on our shipping and returns page. This is a compatible 310-5402, built to the cartridge's specification rather than manufactured by Dell, and the warranty and returns cover is what stands behind that. Questions are handled by our support team, Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This Dell 1700N Cartridge
This listing is a single compatible high-yield black cartridge for the Dell Laser 1700N, built to the 310-5402 specification, rated at 6,000 pages and priced at $78.57 — roughly 1.31¢ per page across a team's printing. The same cartridge serves the Laser 1700 and Laser 1710. Orders ship from one of our four US warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and every cartridge is covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. More compatible options for this printer family are on our Dell toner page.
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