SKU:

Dell-332-0401

Printer Brand:

Dell

OEM Number:

332-0401

Ink Color:

Magenta

Page Yield:

1,000 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the 332-0401, in plain terms?

It is the magenta cartridge for Dell's C1660 and C1760 compact color laser printers — the pink-red cartridge that, together with cyan and yellow, builds every warm tone your printer produces. Dell numbers each color position separately: cyan is 332-0400, this magenta is 332-0401, yellow is 332-0402 and black is 332-0399. This listing is a compatible version of the magenta, rated at 1,000 pages and priced at $25.55.

How fast will our office actually go through 1,000 pages of magenta?

Magenta is usually the slowest or the fastest color depending on what you print. A month of letterhead and invoices barely touches it; a run of brochures with red branding, skin tones or product photos can eat hundreds of pages' worth in a week. As a planning rule, light mixed use stretches one 332-0401 across most of a year, while a marketing-heavy month can finish it outright — the 1,000-page rating is measured at 5% coverage, and real color documents cover far more of the page.

Our reds look orange and faces look yellow — is magenta the problem?

That is the classic signature of a dying magenta cartridge. Red is made by laying magenta over yellow; when the magenta runs low, the yellow wins and reds slide toward orange, while skin tones go sallow. If the printer's gauge shows magenta lowest of the four colors, a fresh 332-0401 is the whole repair — the other cartridges are not involved and do not need to come out.

Is a 1,000-page rating something to be concerned about?

It is something to know, not something to fear. One thousand pages is a genuinely short rating — this is a small cartridge for a small printer — and at $25.55 it works out to about 2.6 cents per page, which is not cheap printing. For a home office or a desk printer that sees occasional color, that trade is perfectly sensible. For daily high-volume color work, the honest answer is that the C1660 platform itself, not any particular cartridge, is the limiting factor.

How should I store a spare 332-0401 until I need it?

Keep it sealed in its bag, lying flat, in a cool dry drawer away from sunlight and heat sources — a toner cartridge stored that way keeps its rated performance for a long shelf life. Do not open the packaging early "to check it," and do not store it standing on end. When the old magenta comes out, the spare goes straight in and the printer is back in service in about a minute.

What happens if this compatible magenta prints badly?

Then it comes back to us. This 332-0401 is covered by a one-year warranty and one-year free returns, and our support team is reachable Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if you want to talk it through first. Orders are dispatched from our warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, so replacements move quickly too. Full terms are on our shipping and returns page, and the rest of the family is listed on our Dell toner page.

The low-magenta warning just appeared — should I swap the cartridge straight away?

Not necessarily. The warning precedes empty; a 332-0401 that has just flagged low still has printing left in it, and short everyday jobs will finish fine. The moment to swap is before a long color run — a brochure batch or a set of customer documents — because running dry halfway through means the first pages carry full reds and the last pages slide orange. Treat the warning as a scheduling note: finish the small work, change the cartridge before the big job.

Cyan, magenta and yellow differ by a single digit — how do I avoid ordering the wrong one?

Match the color name and the full number together, never the number alone from memory. Magenta is 332-0401; 332-0400 is cyan and 332-0402 is yellow, and all three sit in the same printer, so a transposed digit orders a cartridge your magenta slot cannot use. The pair to trust is printed on the cartridge coming out and shown on the printer's supply screen. Reading both the word and the digits takes seconds and removes the only realistic ordering mistake in this family.

Can I plan orders for all four colors from the printer's supply screen?

Yes — the gauge shows each color's level separately, which makes it a complete ordering list rather than just a warning light. The lowest bar is your next purchase, and a glance at the other three tells you whether anything else is close behind. Checking the screen on a routine — monthly, say — turns four separate surprises into one planned order, and for a printer whose magenta, cyan and yellow each carry a 1,000-page rating, that rhythm matches how the cartridges actually run down.

Our machine is a C1760, not a C1660 — does this cartridge still fit?

Yes. The 332-0401 serves Dell's C1660 and C1760 series alike; the magenta position in both families takes the same cartridge. That is precisely why this listing leads with the part number rather than a single printer name — model badges vary across the range, while the number stays constant. If your C1760's supply screen or the label on its old magenta cartridge reads 332-0401, this is the matching replacement regardless of which badge is on the front of the machine.

About This 332-0401 Magenta Cartridge

The 332-0401 is the magenta position cartridge for the Dell C1660 and C1760 series, and this listing is our compatible version of it: rated at 1,000 pages, priced at $25.55, and honest about what that means — roughly 2.6 cents per page from a compact standard-capacity cartridge, in line with its cyan (332-0400) and yellow (332-0402) partners. It is the cartridge to order when reds turn orange and faces go yellow, it swaps in on its own without disturbing the other colors, and it is backed by a one-year warranty and one-year free returns in case it ever lets you down.