COLOR LASERJET 4700N

The Color LaserJet 4700N put its color engine on the office LAN, and many offices ran one for years as the shared workgroup printer. It uses the HP 643A family — Q5950A black, Q5951A cyan, Q5952A yellow and Q5953A magenta — and on a shared machine the high-yield 643X cartridges, Q5950X black, Q5951X cyan, Q5952X yellow and Q5953X magenta, stretch the time between swaps.

A shared network printer has no owner, and that changes how toner behaves in practice. The person who finds a color empty is rarely the person who emptied it — depletion is the sum of everyone's habits: the team that prints full-color proposals weekly, the manager who prints charts in color when grayscale would do. The predictable response is bigger cartridges and a spare of each color living in the cabinet beside the machine, so a low color is an errand of two minutes rather than a purchase order.

Toner Cartridges for Color LaserJet 4700N

Sets and multipacks for shared-machine stocking:

• 643A four-color set (CS listing)
• 643X high-yield four-color set (CS listing)
• 4700n four-color set
• 643A black two-pack (CS listing)
• 643X black two-pack (CS listing)
• 4700 black two-pack
• 4700 three-color set
• 4700ph three-color set
• 4700dtn three-color set
• 4710 black three-pack
• 4710 five-color set

Which cartridge should you buy?

Shared demand is unpredictable demand, and the 4700N answers it best with capacity: high-yield 643X cartridges in the slots that turn over fastest, and a sealed spare behind each one. Replace colors singly as the panel flags them — the four cartridges live independent lives, and a set is only worth buying when several run low in the same stretch. If your office's color use is genuinely light, standard 643A cartridges keep the money in the budget instead of in toner sitting in a drawer. Either way, agree on who orders: on an ownerless printer, the spare cabinet only stays stocked when one person owns the habit.

Chip, toner and everyday use

The supplies menu is the shared printer's dashboard — it shows each color's remaining level, and checking it before a big shared job prevents the classic mid-run stop. A new cartridge must seat fully for its chip to report; if a freshly installed cartridge does not register, pull it out and slide it back in firmly. Fading that affects every color at once usually means several cartridges are low together, while streaks in one color point at that single cartridge. Keep spares sealed and flat, and write the purchase date on the box so the oldest is always used first.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which toner cartridges does the Color LaserJet 4700N use?

HP 643A cartridges: Q5950A black and Q5951A, Q5952A, Q5953A in cyan, yellow and magenta. The high-yield 643X versions — Q5950X, Q5951X, Q5952X, Q5953X — fit the same four slots.

How do I get the 4700N onto our office network?

Connect it by Ethernet and it takes an address from the network; print a configuration page from the control panel to see the address it received, then point each computer's driver at that address.

Why are pages from the 4700N faded or streaked?

Open the supplies menu first and confirm no cartridge is running low — a low cartridge is the usual cause of fading. Streaks confined to one color point at that color's cartridge; output that fades across all colors suggests several are low at once.

Why does one color always run out first on a shared printer?

Because the office's print mix is never balanced. Color documents lean on the colors in the company's charts, logos and templates, so one or two cartridges deplete well ahead of the others while black tracks total page count.

More printers that use the same cartridges

Every model in this family shares these two cartridge lines: COLOR LASERJET 4700, COLOR LASERJET 4700DN, COLOR LASERJET 4700DTN, COLOR LASERJET 4700PH+, COLOR LASERJET 4710, HP 643A.