Frequently Asked Questions
This Premium Quality 5-pack costs $319.92 — exactly the same as the standard 310-5402 5-pack. So what is different?
On the evidence of the numbers: nothing we can substantiate, and this page will not pretend otherwise. Both listings are five compatible 310-5402 high-yield cartridges, each rated at 6,000 pages. Both work out to $63.98 per cartridge and about 1.07¢ per page. Both carry the same warranty and returns cover. "Premium Quality" is the name on this listing, not a specification we can point to — there is no higher page rating, no different fill, no extra term hiding behind the words. If a measurable difference existed, it would be stated here in figures; it does not, so the honest advice is to judge this listing by its numbers, which are identical to the standard pack's.
Then what should the choice between the two listings actually rest on?
Availability and nothing else. Since the cartridge, the rating, the price and the cover are the same either way, the rational buyer checks which listing is in stock and orders that one. Anyone who has bought supplies for older workgroup printers knows the pattern: parallel listings exist so that a product stays orderable, not because one box secretly outclasses the other. Your Dell 1700-series machine will draw the same 6,000 pages from a cartridge bought here as from one bought under the standard listing's name.
What are the numbers worth trusting on this listing?
These: five cartridges at $319.92, which is $63.98 per cartridge; 6,000 rated pages per cartridge, 30,000 pages in the pack; about 1.07¢ per page; and a saving of $72.93 against buying the same five cartridges singly at $78.57. Every one of those figures can be checked with a calculator against the single-cartridge listing, and they are the whole substance of the offer. A listing that leads with verifiable arithmetic rather than adjectives is, in our view, the more useful kind — judge it on exactly that.
Which printers do the five cartridges serve?
The 310-5402 platform: Dell's Laser 1700, Laser 1700n and Laser 1710. This Premium Quality listing names the cartridge by its code, and that code is the shared supply of all three machines. The cartridges can feed one printer five times over or be shared across a small fleet of family machines. Match the code on your current cartridge's label — 310-5402 — and the fit is confirmed.
Does ordering through the Premium listing change the warranty or the returns?
No. Every cartridge carries the same 1-year warranty against defects, and the pack is covered by the same 1-year free returns if a cartridge does not perform as it should — the terms are on our shipping and returns page. The listing name alters nothing about the cover, the support or the cartridge itself. These are compatible cartridges built to the 310-5402 specification, not Dell-manufactured stock, under whichever listing you choose.
Who is a 5-pack of this cartridge sized for?
An office that prints steadily and would rather think about toner a few times a year than every month: 30,000 pages is a year or more for most workgroup volumes. It suits a single busy machine, a department printer, or a handful of family machines drawing on one shelf. If your printing is light — a few hundred pages a month from one desk — the smaller packs exist precisely for you, and this page would rather point you there than sell you depth you will not use. Support can talk it through Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This 310-5402 Premium Quality 5-Pack
This Premium Quality listing is a 5-pack of compatible 310-5402 high-yield black cartridges — 6,000 rated pages each, 30,000 in total — priced at $319.92, the same price, rating and per-cartridge cost ($63.98, about 1.07¢ per page) as the standard 5-pack listing, a fact this page states openly rather than dressing up. The cartridges serve the Dell Laser 1700, 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 standard listing and the rest of the range are on our Dell toner page.
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