SKU:

HEWCF381A-COM

Printer Brand:

Hewlett Packard

OEM Number:

CF381A

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

2,700 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Which cartridge is this, exactly?

This is one cyan toner cartridge coded CF381A, a color member of HP's 312A family, priced at $35.11 and rated at up to 2,700 pages. The listing covers the cyan cartridge on its own. It serves the Color LaserJet Pro MFP M476dn and the rest of that multifunction series.

What does the cyan cartridge actually print?

Cyan is the blue of the printing palette. It lays down skies, water, teal logos and every blue in a chart, and it pairs with yellow to build the greens — a park landscape or a green graph bar is mostly cyan and yellow working together. When a page carries no blue or green at all, this cartridge rests.

How can I tell cyan is the color running low?

Blues come out washed and greyish, sky photographs lose their depth, and greens slide toward yellow because one of their two ingredients is missing. If black text still prints perfectly while color pages look wrong in that particular way, cyan is the first suspect.

Do copies, scans and faxes draw on this cartridge?

Color copies do — a copied page is a printed page. Scans use no toner at all, since scanning only reads the document. Incoming faxes print in black only, so a busy fax day never touches the cyan supply.

Will color printing pause when the cyan runs out?

Expect color jobs to wait once any one color is empty, because the machine cannot mix a correct page without all of its ingredients. Rather than discovering that mid-deadline, watch the supplies gauge and treat the low warning as your cue to order.

How do I change just this one cartridge?

Open the front door of the machine, slide out the cartridge drawer, and lift the cyan unit from its labeled slot — each color sits in its own marked position, so there is no guessing. Drop the new cartridge in, close up, and the printer is ready.

About This CF381A Cyan Cartridge

Most office color work fails quietly when cyan fades: the report still prints, but every chart looks tired and every photo looks wrong. A fresh CF381A restores the blue half of the palette — 2,700 pages of skies, logos and graphics at the rating standard — for the M476 multifunction line.

We ship from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and the cartridge is backed by a 1-year warranty together with 1-year free returns. Support is on hand Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and our shipping and returns page explains delivery times and how a return works.