Accounting firms, law chambers, pharmacies and school bursaries lean on the HP 222A Black Toner Cartridge for everyday paperwork. Invoices, LPOs, payslips, delivery notes and KRA iTax acknowledgements print on black toner alone. When black runs low, text fades to grey and thin table borders break into dotted lines. A faded tender form or court filing can be turned away at the counter, costing a full working day. Fitting a fresh HP 222A Black Toner Cartridge takes about two minutes and needs no technician. Crisp 600 x 600 dpi text returns from the next page, and the drawer keeps the three colour cartridges untouched.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya, Mascom International stocks black, cyan, magenta and yellow 222A cartridges on one shelf, so you replace only the empty one. At Mascom International, we're seeing offices in Upper Hill and Westlands buy black in pairs, because text-heavy desks drain it three times faster than any colour. Customers across Nairobi report roughly four months from one cartridge at 300 pages a month. Pay-on-arrival delivery reaches Nyeri, Machakos, Kisii and every other county, so the HP 222A Black Toner Cartridge lands before your next filing deadline.

HP rates it at about 1,300 A4 pages at 5% coverage, which matches a typical letter or invoice. An office printing 300 text pages a month gets a little over four months. Pages carrying dark letterheads, shaded tables or scanned stamps use far more toner, so real output often lands between 900 and 1,150 pages. Print the Supplies Status page from the control panel once a month and reorder when it shows about 20% remaining, which leaves roughly two weeks of normal printing.

About KSh 9.46 per page at rated coverage, because KSh 12,300 divided by 1,300 pages gives that figure. A 20-page tender response uses roughly KSh 189 in toner. An office printing 300 pages a month spends close to KSh 2,840 on black. Cyber cafés in Nairobi CBD typically charge KSh 10 to KSh 20 per page, plus the queue, the walk and the lost hour away from your desk. Printing in-house also keeps payroll files and client records off shared cyber computers.

No. HP region-codes this printer generation. Models numbered 3203, 3288, 3303 and 3388 take the 222A range, while the 3201 and 3301 models sold in North America take the 218A range. The two cartridges look almost identical, yet the printer reads the chip and rejects the wrong family. Check the model number on the front panel or the label behind the paper tray. WhatsApp us a photo and our team confirms the correct cartridge before you pay.

Choose the standard 222A if you print under 400 pages a month or want a lower upfront spend. HP rates the 222X black at about 3,200 pages, roughly two and a half times the 1,300 pages here. That suits busy reception desks, bursar offices and accounts teams during month-end. For a small practice printing 200 pages monthly, one 222A lasts about six and a half months, so the larger cartridge would sit half-used for well over a year.

Open the front door and pull the toner drawer out by its handle. Lift the empty black cartridge from its labelled slot. Unwrap the new one, hold it by the handle and rock it gently five or six times to spread the toner evenly. Remove all protective packing, drop it into the black slot, then slide the drawer home and close the door. The printer reads the chip and returns to Ready within about a minute. No tools, drivers or technician visits are needed.

Check three things before paying. The box label should read W2220A and carry an HP security label that shifts in appearance when tilted. Inside, the cartridge sits in a sealed protective bag. After fitting, the control panel should show no used, counterfeit or non-HP supply warning. Clones and refills often trigger that message, misreport the toner gauge and leave grey streaks down the page. Every HP 222A Black Toner Cartridge from Mascom International passes all three checks.

TerraJet is HP's newer toner formula, introduced with this printer generation. HP designs it for lower-energy printing, so the printer draws less power across a working month. The cartridge shell also uses recycled plastic, which matters to NGOs and firms that report on sustainability. For you, the practical result is dense black text at 600 x 600 dpi on ordinary 80 gsm office paper, with no smudging when pages are handled straight off the output tray. The 3303fdw prints its first black page in about 10.9 seconds.

Buy black alone. Every letter, figure and table line on a business page uses black toner only, so black empties two or three times for every colour cartridge in a document-heavy office. HP sells each 222A colour separately for exactly that reason. Paying KSh 12,300 for the empty black makes more sense than buying a full set while cyan, magenta and yellow still hold plenty of toner. Over a year, that habit saves a busy office thousands of shillings and frees shelf space too.

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

Law firms, clinics and accounts offices across Kenya rely on Mascom International for original printer supplies, correct part numbers and direct after-sales support.