HP 201A Toner 1500 Pages (CF400A), Black

Having tried a few 3rd party toner cartridges which worked for a while but developed lines on the paper whilst still plenty of toner left, I've gone back to genuine parts.

Original cartridge, easy to install and seems to work well.

Toner is something that makes white paper black. A piece of paper is born virginal, pure and unsullied. Like gods, we control its fate by writing its future on our computers. Then the paper (which knows nothing of what is about to happen) is fed into our LaserJet. With a whirr, it is pulled around into the drum where selectively electrically charged toner particles are attached. Finally like a branded steer, the heat unit permanently fuses the toner to the paper. Now the paper is used. It is permanently and irrevocably changed. Gone is its whiteness, its purity, and in its place is a stark image or text. And the colour - black. The darkest colour you can get. It is a complete contrast to the white - the yin and yang is clear. If you have a large enough piece of black it is like staring into the abyss. Like that paper, all of us are marked. Some of us are saying something useful. Some of us will make people happy. Some of us will make people sad. But we will never be pure again. And once marked by toner (or life) we know we are inexorably heading towards decline and death. If we've been printed with the wrong marks, perhaps we are thrown away immediately. Perhaps we will be around for a long time. But eventually the shredder or the dustbin awaits us all. And then everything will be black.

Looks ok so far

Works very well. Good quality, though expensive. Will see how long it would last. Earlier a ordered a cheaper non HP on Amazon. It did not even fit.

HP Toner for a HP printer - it works, its pricey but so are all original manufactured toners.

I like the fact that replacing cartridges on this model is simple

Order cancelled wrong type of cartridge

der Originaltoner funktioniert einwandfrei, mit refurbished Tonern habe ich keine so guten Erfahrungen gemacht

Conforme à l'attente

Well it’s not cheap but a genuine OEM product and cheaper than others Thanks

I have tried to use non HP cartridges for my HP MFP M277dw colour laser printer. I seldom use colour, but it is nice to have if you need it, so I have only replaced the black toner. I tried a LCL CF400X/CF400A replacement cartridge that worked well for a while, but then started having lines. I replaced it with a second LCL and after 10% use it became very splotchy with lines and black spots, which was not satisfactory. This was a much quicker deterioration of print quality that after the first one. I wondered if I had to get the printer cleaned, but took a chance on ordering a genuine HP cartridge. This seemed to take care of the problem, and I wonder if HP has set it up so that you can't use aftermarket cartridges (at 20% of the price!) Not happy with the price, but much better quality.

Easy to install, never had leaks, never had malfunction. It is clear that the cartridge is designed to use the entire contents before replacement is required: no wasted residual ink left in the cartridge.