Black and Color Toner Cartridges, What is the different?

In everyday life, we know that color printers and black and white printers, as well as color toner cartridges and black toner cartridges. Black toner cartridges are more common than color toner cartridges because they are cheaper and more usable than color toner cartridges. But do you know the difference between black toner cartridges and color toner cartridges?

V4ink tells you that their differences are not just about their names.

The difference between color.

Usually, black toner cartridge has only 1 colors, that is, black. However, color toner cartridge usually contain Cyan(C), Yellow(Y), Magenta(M) and Key(K) which ordinarily abbreviated as "KCMY" or "CYMK". What’s that means?

The Cyan away brings out a blue ink, the Yellow brings out a yellow ink, Magenta is a mixture of red and purple ink and the Key is stands for "black" on the toner cartridge. This color coding is the basis for of the digital printing technology and therefore used extensively.

The difference between page yield.

Generally speaking, black toner cartridge has more printing pages than color toner cartridge. For example, the HP 201X black toner cartridge’s page yield is  2800 Pages for Black Toner Cartridge and 2300 Pages for color toner cartridge at 5% coverage (Letter/A4). The black toner cartridge have 500 pages more than the color cartridges. 

The difference between their model.

When all the color toner cartridge are integrated, they have a fixed model name. But when they separated, they have their own separate model names. For example, we always know that Hp 201X is a 4 color set and we also know that the CF400X is the black toner cartridge. But not many people know that Hp 201X actually contains CF400X(black), CF401X(cyan), CF402X(yellow) and CF403X(magenta) 4 different model toner cartridge. So If you want to purchase a single color, you have to know their model names.