SKU:

Dell-332-0399-5Pack

Printer Brand:

Dell

OEM Number:

332-0399

Ink Color:

Black 5 Pack

Page Yield:

1,250 Each

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Who actually buys black toner five cartridges at a time?

Owners whose C1660 works for a living. The 332-0399 is a small cartridge — 1,250 rated pages — in a small printer, so a machine printing black every day empties it on a rhythm of weeks, not seasons. For that user, the choice is between reordering a single cartridge again and again at $23.43 a time, or holding this pack: five cartridges, 6,250 rated pages, at $43.17. If your C1660 sits mostly idle, this pack is more toner than you need; if it prints daily, five at a time is simply the economical unit of purchase.

What does the 5-pack bring the per-cartridge price down to?

$8.63 — against $23.43 for the same cartridge bought alone. The ladder behind it is consistent: each cartridge beyond the first adds $4.93 to the order, so two cost $28.36, three $33.29 and five $43.17. Five singles bought separately would total $117.15, which makes the pack saving $73.98. Per rated page, the pack works out to about 0.69 cents, where the single cartridge sits at about 1.87 cents — the deepest discount this family offers, earned entirely by quantity.

How much printing does 6,250 pages represent?

On a hard-working C1660, a serious stretch of it. At 300 black pages a month, five cartridges cover roughly twenty months; at 500 a month, about a year. The 1,250-page rating per cartridge assumes standard 5% coverage, so real life varies with what you print — dense documents shorten it, plain text tracks it. The practical effect of the pack is that black toner stops being a monthly decision and becomes an occasional one.

Is the cartridge in this pack a lesser version of the single?

No — it is the same compatible 332-0399 black cartridge, with the same 1,250-page rating, sold singly elsewhere on this site. The 5-pack is a pricing format, not a different grade of product: nothing is de-specified, diluted or re-rated to hit the $43.17 price. The saving comes from shipping and handling five units in one order instead of five separate ones, and it is passed on in the per-cartridge average.

How should five cartridges be stored and used?

Kept sealed, in their boxes, in a normal room — toner cartridges ask for nothing exotic, just freedom from heat and damp. Fit them in the order they arrived so the oldest stock works first, and open each only when the C1660's black slot actually empties. A five-deep shelf managed that way is a stockroom, not a stockpile: every cartridge gets used in turn, in order, while it is well within its service life.

What backing covers all five cartridges?

Each one individually: a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns stand behind every cartridge in the pack, first or fifth. If one underperforms, it comes back to us under the same terms set out on our shipping & returns page. Support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, orders ship from IL, PA, GA or CA, and the wider Dell range is on our Dell page.

We run both a C1660 and a C1660w — can this one pack feed both machines?

Yes. The 332-0399 is the black cartridge for both models, so a single shelf stock serves whichever machine empties first. That is one of the quiet advantages of a five-pack in a two-printer office: instead of separate spares for each desk, the pack is a shared pool, and the next cartridge goes to the printer that needs it. Just keep the count honest — five cartridges shared two ways disappear faster than five dedicated to one machine.

How do we keep track of where we are in a five-cartridge pack?

Write the fitting date on each box as it goes in. That one habit turns the pack into its own record: the dates show your real consumption rhythm — one 332-0399 every six weeks, say, or every three months — and counting the sealed boxes left tells you the stock position at a glance. After two or three dated fittings you can predict the next order date within a week or two, long before the shelf runs dry.

What happens to this stock if the C1660 is replaced by a different printer later?

It stays behind. The 332-0399 fits the C1660 and C1660w family and nothing else, so cartridges left over when the machine goes have no second home in a different model. That is worth weighing before a printer change rather than after: if a replacement is already planned, running the pack down first — or timing the change for when the shelf is low — avoids stranding paid-for toner. For a machine staying in service, the point never arises.

The printer shows a low-toner warning — does that mean the cartridge is done?

No. The warning arrives ahead of empty, as a planning signal rather than a stop order. A 332-0399 still has useful output left when the warning first appears, so the sensible routine is to finish the work in hand and swap at a natural break rather than mid-document. With four more cartridges on the shelf, there is no reason to stretch a fading unit either — the warning plus stock in hand means the change happens on your schedule, not the printer's.

About This Dell 332-0399 Toner Cartridge 5-Pack

Five compatible Dell 332-0399 black toner cartridges for the C1660 and C1660w, each rated at up to 1,250 pages — 6,250 pages in total — for $43.17. That is $8.63 per cartridge and about 0.69 cents per rated page, saving $73.98 against five cartridges bought singly. The pack ships from our IL, PA, GA or CA warehouses, with a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns on every cartridge.