Small accounting firms, pharmacies, school offices and home-based consultants rely on the HP 216A Black Toner Cartridge for everyday paperwork. Invoices, receipts, LPOs, payslips and KRA iTax acknowledgements all print on black toner alone. When black runs low, text turns grey and thin table borders break into dotted lines. A faded contract or bid form can be rejected at the counter, costing a full working day. Fitting a fresh HP 216A Black Toner Cartridge takes under two minutes and needs no technician. Sharp 600 x 600 dpi text returns from the next page onward.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya, Mascom International keeps all four 216A colours on one shelf, so you replace only the cartridge that is actually empty. At Mascom International, we're seeing small offices in Westlands and Upper Hill buy black two at a time, since black empties far faster than any colour on a text-heavy desk. Customers across Nairobi report that one black cartridge lasts about four months at 250 pages a month. Pay-on-arrival delivery reaches Nyeri, Machakos, Kakamega and every other county, so the HP 216A Black Toner Cartridge lands before your next filing deadline.

HP rates it at about 1,050 A4 pages at 5% coverage, which is close to a typical letter or invoice. An office printing 250 text pages a month gets roughly four months from one cartridge. Pages with heavy tables, dark letterheads or scanned stamps use more toner, so real output often lands between 700 and 950 pages. Checking the Supplies Status report once a month lets you reorder well before the gauge reaches zero and work stops.

Black works out to about KSh 9.52 per page at rated coverage, because KSh 10,000 divided by 1,050 pages gives that figure. A 15-page tender response therefore uses roughly KSh 143 in toner. Cyber cafés around Nairobi CBD usually charge KSh 10 to KSh 20 per printed page, before the walk and the queue. Printing in-house also keeps client files and payroll records off shared cyber computers and strangers' flash drives.

Probably not. HP region-codes the M182 and M183 printer families. Units sold in Kenya, Europe, the Middle East and the rest of Africa take 216A cartridges, while units sold in the United States take the 215A range. The two look almost identical, yet a printer coded for 215A may reject a 216A as incompatible. Read the part number on your old cartridge before ordering, or WhatsApp us a photo and our team confirms the correct code before you pay.

Every letter, figure and table line on an ordinary business page uses black toner only. A page of plain text draws no colour toner at all. Pharmacies, school bursaries and accounts desks therefore empty black two or three times for every colour cartridge. That is exactly why HP sells each 216A colour separately. You pay KSh 10,000 for the empty black alone, instead of buying a full set while three colours still hold plenty of toner. Over a year, that approach saves a busy office thousands of shillings.

Open the front door and pull the cartridge drawer out by its handle. Lift the empty black cartridge from its labelled slot. Take the new cartridge out of its bag, hold it by the handle and rock it gently five or six times to spread the toner. Pull off the protective packing, drop it into the black slot, then slide the drawer back and close the door. The printer reads the chip and returns to Ready within about a minute.

Check three things before paying. The box should show W2410A on its label and carry an HP security label that shifts appearance when tilted. Inside, the cartridge sits in a sealed protective bag. After installation, the control panel should show no used or non-HP supply warning. Clones and refills often trigger that message, misreport toner levels and leave grey streaks down the page. Every HP 216A Black Toner Cartridge sold at Mascom International passes all three checks.

These are compact colour all-in-ones built for one to five users. HP recommends 150 to 1,500 pages a month, with a duty cycle ceiling of 30,000 pages. That suits a clinic reception, a small law practice, a church office or a home business. At 16 pages per minute, a 20-page report prints in under two minutes. Offices printing above 1,500 pages monthly will replace toner often and should consider a larger workgroup printer instead.

Keep it sealed in its box, lying flat, away from windows, kitchens and hot storerooms. HP rates unopened cartridges for storage between -20°C and 40°C at 10% to 90% humidity, so an ordinary cupboard in Nairobi, Eldoret or Nyeri is fine. Offices along the coast in Mombasa or Malindi should avoid damp corners during the long rains. If a cartridge travelled in a hot car, let it rest indoors for about an hour before opening.

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

Small offices, clinics and home businesses across Kenya rely on Mascom International for original printer supplies, correct part numbers and direct after-sales support.