Canon Toner Cartridges by Printer Model

You have a Canon laser printer, the toner has run out, and you need the right cartridge number before calling the shop. Here are the Canon cartridges most commonly found in Indian offices, the printer families each fits, and the checks that stop you buying the wrong one.

The Canon toner cartridge list for Indian office printers

Canon numbers its desktop laser cartridges plainly — Cartridge 303, 325, 337 — and each serves a family of related machines. The pairings you will meet most often:

• Canon 303 — the LBP2900 and LBP3000. The LBP2900 has been sold in India for roughly two decades and is still on desks everywhere, which makes the 303 one of the most traded cartridges in the country. Rated at about 2,000 pages.
• Canon 325 — the LBP6000, LBP6018 and LBP6030 series, and the MF3010 multifunction. Rated at about 1,600 pages. The MF3010 is a staple of small Indian offices, so the 325 is everywhere.
• Canon 328 — the imageCLASS MF4400 and MF4700 series multifunctions (MF4412, MF4420n, MF4820d and relatives) and several FAX-L machines. Rated at about 2,100 pages.
• Canon 337 — the imageCLASS MF210, MF220, MF230 and MF240 series (MF226dn, MF232w, MF244dw, MF249dw and relatives). Rated at about 2,400 pages.
• Canon 052 and 057 — the newer LBP210/LBP220-series printers and their MF420/MF440-series multifunction relatives. These are chipped cartridges with high-yield "H" variants, and the printer checks the chip more carefully than the older families do.

The yields quoted are Canon's rated figures, measured at a standard low page coverage. Your real yield depends on how dense your pages are; treat the rated number as a way to compare cartridges, not as a count you will see on the meter.

Colour imageCLASS machines take a set of four cartridges with their own numbers, and the same verification rules apply.

Copiers are a different system

If your Canon is an imageRUNNER — the floor-standing or large desktop copier class — it does not take cartridges from the list above. Those machines use NPG-series toner (NPG-28, NPG-51, NPG-59 and so on), which is toner only. The drum and developer live separately inside the machine and have their own service lives. Putting desktop-cartridge thinking onto a copier leads to wrong purchases, so identify which class of machine you own first. The model plate on the front or side settles it.

How to confirm the right cartridge

The list covers the common cases; the machine is the authority. In order of reliability:

1. Read the old cartridge. The cartridge number is moulded or printed on it. Buying a replacement for the number in your hand cannot go wrong.
2. Open the front cover. Most Canon desktop lasers state the supported cartridge on a label inside.
3. Check the manual or Canon's support page for your exact model. Canon model numbers run close together — an MF3010 and an MF4412 look like neighbours and take different cartridges — so never buy on resemblance.

Photograph the model plate before going to Nehru Place. A specific cartridge number gets you the right part; a printer description gets you the shopkeeper's best guess.

Genuine, compatible and refilled

Three kinds of cartridge circulate in the Indian market, and it is worth knowing which you are buying:

• Genuine Canon, at the highest price per cartridge, with the most predictable behaviour.
• Compatible brands, new-built cartridges from third parties. Quality varies by brand far more than buyers expect; the cheapest ones save money on the drum and blade, which is where print quality lives.
• Refilled cartridges — your own cartridge refilled with fresh toner. For the 303, 325, 328 and 337 families this is routine in India and the economics are strong, because the cartridge body outlives several fills. We cover the trade-offs honestly in our refill versus new cartridge post, and offer toner refilling across Delhi NCR.

One caution: counterfeit cartridges in genuine-looking Canon boxes exist. A price dramatically below every other seller is the tell. Buy genuine from authorised sellers, or buy compatibles and refills openly as what they are.

Yields, variants and spares

Rated yields are worth using for one thing: comparing options for the same machine. Where a family offers a high-yield "H" variant — as the newer 052 and 057 lines do — the H fits the same printers, costs more per cartridge and less per rated page, and suits any machine printing daily volume. Also note that the cartridge shipped inside a brand-new printer is often a lower-fill starter, which is why the first cartridge always seems to finish suspiciously fast; the first retail cartridge you buy will last longer.

Keep one sealed spare per machine you rely on — in its bag, out of direct sun, not in a cupboard that bakes through a Delhi summer. Sealed toner keeps well, and a spare turns a dead printer into a two-minute swap.

Two buying mistakes to avoid

Buying by machine brand instead of model. "Canon toner" narrows nothing down. The 325 and 337 fit entirely different machines, and neither fits an imageRUNNER.

Buying a lookalike variant. Some cartridge numbers have regional or high-yield variants. If the shop offers a number that is close to but not exactly what your printer lists, check before accepting — the manual's word beats the counter's.

When to call a technician

If the correct cartridge is installed and the machine still complains, prints faintly or streaks, the problem is usually the drum surface, the contacts or the printer itself rather than the cartridge number. Toner Vision handles Canon printer repair across Delhi NCR with a 4-hour average response — worth a call before you buy a second cartridge for a fault the first one did not cause.