C5510N

Built on the same engine as the C5500 series, the Okidata C5510N adds networking to the package so a whole workgroup can share one color laser printer instead of crowding around a single desk. It runs on OKI Type C6 cartridges from the 42127400 series, and this page stocks the three colors: 42127401 yellow, 42127402 magenta and 42127403 cyan. The black cartridge, 42127404, belongs to the same set but is not listed here. Compatible versions of these numbers are what keep shared color printing affordable for teams that use it daily.

Sharing changes a printer's life. A networked machine accumulates pages from a dozen different habits — the colleague who prints every email, the one who proofs in full color, the reports nobody admits to sending — and no single person feels responsible for its supplies. That is the environment this page is organized for: know the three color numbers, know that black is handled separately, and anyone on the team can reorder correctly without a scavenger hunt through the manual.

Toner Cartridges for C5510N

Which cartridge should you buy?

On a shared machine, buy for the team rather than the job: identify the color the printer is reporting low, order that single cartridge, and leave the others in place — each of the four loads and empties separately, so there is never a reason to retire a color that still has life in it. Because no one person watches the counters, a sealed spare of the most-used color in the supply cabinet is worth more on a networked model than on any private printer. One caution specific to this page: the black member of the set, 42127404, is not stocked among these listings, so whoever handles the black purchase should not assume it arrived with a color order.

Chip, toner and everyday use

A fresh cartridge announces itself through its chip, and the printer's status page — reachable by the whole workgroup over the network — shows each color's level, which makes it easy to check supplies before a big shared job rather than during it. Ratings for this family rest on the familiar five percent coverage page; real offices printing color documents land below that, and a shared machine lands lower still because nobody economizes on someone else's printer. Changing a cartridge is a top-cover job: remove the empty color, shake its replacement gently side to side to distribute the toner, and set it into the matching slot until it seats.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which cartridges fit the C5510N?

The Type C6 set numbered 42127401 to 42127404 — yellow, magenta, cyan and black. Each color loads into its own slot and is replaced individually when it runs out. Some older write-ups of this model attach a different set of numbers to it; the cartridges stocked for this page, across the whole family of related models, are the 42127400 series.

My C5510N prints washed-out color pages. What should I check?

Begin with the supply levels on the printer's status page, because washed-out color most often means one of the four cartridges is running low. If the levels look healthy, print a color test page: when a single color comes out faded while the rest stay strong, that color's cartridge — not the printer — is where the problem lives.

How is the C5510N different from the C5510 when I am ordering toner?

For ordering purposes it is not different at all: the N designates the networked configuration of the same engine and the same cartridge family. Anyone restocking either model is buying from the same four numbers, which is convenient for offices that run the plain and networked versions side by side.

More printers that use the same cartridges

The networked badge does not set this machine apart from its family at the supply shelf. Every model below shares the same Type C6 cartridges as the C5510N:

ES1624N MFP, C5100, C5100N, C5150, C5150N, C5200, C5200N, C5250, C5250DN, C5250N, C5300, C5300N, C5400, C5400DN, C5400DTN, C5400N, C5400TN, C5450, C5450dn, C5450N, C5510, C5510MFP, C5510n MFP