What 2,500 pages really change
Toner yield does not appear on the printer's purchase invoice, and that is exactly why it is decisive. Over three years at 500 pages a month, a machine rated at 1,000 pages per toner calls for eighteen replacements; this one, seven. The price gap between the two cartridges almost never makes up that difference.
It also means fewer interventions, fewer shortages at the worst moment and less stock to hold — three real costs that appear on no product sheet.
What this machine changes about your consumption
The MS317dn only prints, at 33 pages per minute, with automatic duplex, over Ethernet — no Wi-Fi, no scanner. It is a departmental machine, sitting on a wired network and shared by a team.
Automatic duplex deserves a remark: it halves your paper consumption but not your toner consumption, since it still prints the same number of pages. It saves paper, not powder — the opposite of what people often assume.
One cartridge for the whole MS/MX family
Lexmark lists the 51B5000 for the MS and MX 317, 417, 517 and 617. A fleet built from these models therefore has a single consumable line to manage, whichever machine you happen to be at. That is a genuine operational comfort, and an argument for staying in the range when adding a printer.
A fleet of printers to keep supplied?
We draw up the list of consumables for your whole fleet and a single grouped quote. Invoice in your company's name with its ICE number, delivery anywhere in Morocco.