Cyan is the colour behind every blue sky, green field and teal logo your printer produces. Teachers printing geography maps, CBC project charts and prize-giving certificates run through cyan faster than they expect. Built for head teachers, school secretaries and university students at Kenyatta University and Strathmore, the HP GT52 Cyan Ink Bottle keeps those prints accurate at about KSh 0.29 per page. When cyan runs low, greens turn yellow and blues look grey. The HP GT52 Cyan Ink Bottle brings them straight back with one two-minute refill, with no technician visit and no printer settings to change.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya that sell refilled bottles with faded labels, Mascom International supplies sealed HP stock with a part number you can check. One HP GT52 Cyan Ink Bottle covers roughly a full school term of colour worksheets for a busy primary school office. School bursars in Nakuru and Nyeri report fewer clogged nozzles after moving from refill ink back to originals. Walk in to match the HP GT52 Cyan Ink Bottle against your printer, or order by WhatsApp for same-day delivery within Nairobi and its environs.

It fits HP ink tank printers that list GT52 as their colour ink. Common models include the DeskJet GT 5810 and GT 5820, the Ink Tank 115, 315, 319, 412, 415, 416 and 419, and the Smart Tank 500, 515, 519 and 615. The model name sits on the front panel or the label inside the ink lid. Send that model on WhatsApp and our team confirms the match within minutes, before you spend a shilling. Our Kimathi Street counter also keeps a printed compatibility chart you can check in person.

HP rates the bottle at about 8,000 pages using its ISO colour test, which assumes all three GT52 colours are in use together. At KSh 2,300, that is about KSh 0.29 per page for cyan. Pages with large blue or green areas, such as maps or charts with shaded backgrounds, use more ink and print fewer pages. A school office printing 400 colour pages a month can expect well over a year from one bottle. Photo-heavy printing shortens that, so keep a spare during busy months.

Your printer mixes cyan with the other colours to build almost every shade on the page. Cyan plus yellow makes green, and cyan plus magenta makes blue and purple. Pale sky tones, teal logos and even some grey shading in photos rely on cyan as well. So a green school crest or a blue company letterhead draws on the cyan tank. When cyan runs low, those colours shift first, with greens turning yellowish and blues fading toward purple or grey.

Yes. Dye ink soaks slightly into the paper, which gives smooth colour blends and bright tones on standard office paper and matte card. That suits prize certificates, timetables, charts and project covers printed at school. Dye colours are less resistant to sunlight than pigment, so charts pinned on a sunny classroom wall will fade over months. For framed certificates, keep them out of direct afternoon sun to hold their colour for years rather than months. Laminating also protects against dust and fingerprints.

Refill only the tank that is low. Each colour empties at its own pace, depending on what you print. Schools printing green and blue charts often finish cyan before magenta or yellow. Check the see-through tanks weekly and top up any colour near its minimum line. If all three look low, buying the full set of cyan, magenta and yellow at KSh 6,900 saves a second trip to Kimathi Street. Never let a tank run completely empty, since air entering the printhead line can cause streaky prints afterward.

Mixing colours contaminates the tank and the printhead channel behind it, so prints come out muddy until the wrong ink clears. Stop printing immediately and call our team on WhatsApp for guidance. Prevention is simple. Match the colour label on each tank before opening the bottle, and refill one colour at a time with the other caps closed. Offices where several staff share one printer should label the tanks clearly and let one trained person handle every refill, which cuts mix-ups to almost zero.

Dye ink particles are small and sit inside the paper fibres, so ultraviolet light breaks them down over time. Cyan and magenta fade faster than black pigment in direct sun. A notice pinned to a window in Mombasa or Garissa can lose visible colour within a few weeks. Indoors, away from windows, the same print keeps its colour for years. For outdoor signage, laminate the page or print on a laser printer that uses toner instead. Keeping originals in a folder protects them as well.

Check four things before you pay. The carton should carry part number M0H54AE and an intact HP seal. The bottle should have a sealed cap and a printed date on the carton or bottle. Genuine HP cartons carry clean, sharp printing with no spelling mistakes. Finally, buy from a seller with a physical address you can visit. Mascom International shows you all four at our Kimathi Street counter, and courier customers receive the same sealed carton at the door.

The HP GT52 Cyan Ink Bottle carries a 6-month Mascom International warranty on manufacturing defects. If a sealed bottle arrives leaking or produces faulty colour from the first refill, bring the bottle and a test print to our Nairobi CBD service desk. Damage from mixing with non-HP ink, pouring into the wrong tank or spills falls outside this cover.

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Each bottle is backed by the 6-month warranty stated above, with claims handled at our Nairobi CBD service desk.

Schools, colleges and offices across Kenya choose Mascom International for sealed HP ink, clear part numbers and support from a store they can walk into.