Laserjet 1320T

The LaserJet 1320T answers a paper problem, not a print problem: it is the 1320 configuration with an extra tray, built for small offices whose volume had outgrown a single tray's worth of paper at a time. The engine is the familiar 2005 monochrome unit, and it feeds on the standard HP 49A (Q5949A) or the high-yield HP 49X, full part number Q5949X. Both are listed below in every pack size this store carries.

A second tray quietly changes a printer's working life. Reloads stop interrupting jobs, and many offices dedicate one tray to letterhead and the other to plain stock, so a document comes out on the right paper without anyone opening a drawer. The 1320T was bought by people who printed enough for paper handling — not print quality — to be their bottleneck, and that profile still describes the machines in service today: steady, paper-hungry, and expected to simply keep up.

Toner Cartridges for Laserjet 1320T

Which cartridge should you buy?

A printer specified for volume should be fed like one. The high-yield Q5949X matches the 1320T's workload: fewer cartridge changes, a lower cost per page across long runs, and less chance of a job stalling on an empty machine. The standard Q5949A still has a place where a 1320T has been retired to light backup duty, but as a primary printer it asks for attention too often. Buy in multipacks if this is your main machine — the 3 and 5 packs keep a working reserve beside a printer that eats paper by the tray, and the 10 pack suits offices running several 1320-family printers on one supply order. The MICR versions are for check printing only; high volume alone is not a reason to choose them.

Chip, toner and everyday use

Volume printers reward two habits. First, keep the spare cartridge next to the printer rather than in a supply room: on a machine fed by two trays, a toner stoppage wastes more work-in-progress than on a desktop unit. Second, when print lightens near the end of a cartridge, rock it side to side to level the remaining toner before concluding it is empty — at high volumes that recovered toner is real pages. The cartridge chip reports level to the printer, so a glance at the status before a long run prevents surprises. Remember that yields assume 5% coverage; forms, statements and other dense pages will shorten a cartridge's life noticeably. Store spares sealed and flat, and load the oldest first.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the T in 1320T stand for?

The extra tray. The T configuration adds a second paper tray to the base 1320, which is a paper-handling upgrade only — the toner cartridges are exactly the family's standard pair.

Which toner does the LaserJet 1320T use?

The standard Q5949A and the high-yield Q5949X, nothing else. Match the code on the cartridge you remove; both codes appear across the singles and multipacks listed on this page.

Standard or high-yield for a two-tray workload?

High-yield, in almost every case. A printer bought for capacity should not be the one waiting on toner: the Q5949X stretches each cartridge across far more of those tray-fed pages and lowers the cost of each one. Keep the standard size for genuinely light use.

Do I ever replace a drum on the 1320T?

Not separately. The drum lives inside the toner cartridge on this model, so a cartridge swap is also a drum renewal — one of the reasons these printers ask for so little maintenance.

More printers that use the same cartridges

Every model below runs on the same standard and high-yield pair as the 1320T: HP Q5949A, LaserJet 1160, Laserjet 1160, Laserjet 1160LE, Laserjet 1320, Laserjet 1320N, Laserjet 1320NW, Laserjet 1320TN, LaserJet 3390, LaserJet 3392.