SKU:

HP9040N

Printer Brand:

Hewlett Packard

OEM Number:

C8543X

Ink Color:

High Yield Black

Page Yield:

30,000 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Everyone on the floor shares the 9040n — which cartridge does it use?

The C8543X, short-named 43X. The proof lives on the label of the cartridge inside the machine; order against that code and the shared printer's supply question is answered for good.

What do we get for $164.25?

One black cartridge for the 9040n, sealed in its bag inside its carton, at $164.25. One unit — and no trailing second delivery to wait on.

What does a 30,000-page rating mean when consumption is everybody's?

It means the cartridge absorbs the floor's combined appetite — walk-up jobs and queued jobs together — for long, unremarkable stretches. Busy weeks draw it down faster and quiet ones slower, but a rating this size demotes toner from a weekly topic to an occasional one.

How is the swap done on the 9040n?

Cover up; spent cartridge out with both hands; replacement rocked gently, packing and seal removed, and slid the length of the rails until it seats. Close the cover, let the machine calibrate, and take a test page from a second workstation as the floor-wide all-clear.

The whole floor's output has gone pale at once — cartridge or coincidence?

Cartridge. Simultaneous fading across every workstation eliminates local causes one by one, and the remaining common factor is the shared supply — corroborated by an empty gauge and a toner warning that keeps returning. A rock of the old unit borrows pages, not absolution.

Who holds the spare when the printer belongs to everyone?

Assign it, or it belongs to no one: a named keeper stores one sealed cartridge near the machine and reorders when it is fitted. Shared printers rarely die on a watched day, and the keeper system exists for exactly that.

About This Cartridge for the LaserJet 9040n

The C8543X refill for the HP LaserJet 9040n: one black 43X cartridge rated at 30,000 pages, priced at $164.25. It is sized so that a shared network machine's users can go on never thinking about toner — the rating handles the remembering for them.

Every unit carries a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, with support answering Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST. Orders ship from the closest of our warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA; delivery timing is spelled out on the shipping & returns page, and the wider family is grouped under HP.