SKU:

TN225C-com

Printer Brand:

Brother

OEM Number:

TN225C

Ink Color:

High Yield Cyan

Page Yield:

2,200 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does cyan seem to disappear faster than the other colors?

Office graphics are thirsty for it. Pie charts, bar graphs, spreadsheet shading, and hyperlink-blue text all lean heavily on cyan, so in a typical workplace this is the color that calls for a refill first. The TN225C answers with 2,200 rated pages at $27.88 — about 1.27¢ per page — so the hungriest color slot also gets the family's high-yield capacity.

Is the TN225 the biggest cyan these printers can take?

Yes. Within this cartridge family the TN225 is the high-yield color line, rated at 2,200 pages versus the smaller standard color capacity these machines originally shipped with. If your printer lists TN225 among its supplies, this is the longest-running cyan available for it. For the full shelf, see our Best Brother TN221 Toner Cartridges guide: the TN221BK black cartridge, the high-yield TN225 colors, the mixed sets and the DR221 drum units are compared side by side — including how the standard and high-yield colors differ when black stays the same cartridge either way.

Which printers does the TN225C go into?

The Brother color laser/LED printers and all-in-ones built for this family — the DCP-9020CDN, HL-3140CW, HL-3150CDN, HL-3170CDW, HL-3180CDW, MFC-9130CW and MFC-9330CDW. The same models use the TN221BK in the black slot and TN225 cartridges in magenta and yellow.

Can I replace just the cyan, or do the colors have to change together?

Just the cyan. Each color sits in its own slot and can be swapped independently the moment its warning appears, leaving the other cartridges to finish their life. Plenty of customers run a fresh TN225C alongside older magenta and yellow cartridges without any issue.

How will I know the cyan is nearly done?

Blues and greens start looking washed out or uneven before the printer stops, and the machine will flag a low-cyan warning as the level drops. When low turns to empty, the printer will hold color jobs until the cartridge is replaced.

What protection comes with this cartridge?

A 1-year warranty and free returns within the first year, as set out in our shipping and returns policy. Your order ships from one of our IL, PA, GA, or CA warehouses, and support is available Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST.

Will I really get 2,200 pages out of a TN225C, or is that a best-case number?

It is a rating at standard document coverage, so treat it as the center of a range rather than a guarantee. Pages dense with chart fills, shaded tables and presentation graphics spend cyan faster than the rating assumes, while memos with a blue heading and a hyperlink barely sip it. A workplace mixing both will land somewhere near 2,200; a graphics-heavy one lands under it. The honest planning figure is the rating adjusted for how blue your documents actually are.

Does printing two-sided stretch this cartridge further?

No — duplexing saves paper, not toner. Yield counts printed sides, so a 100-page report folded onto 50 sheets still spends 100 pages of the TN225C's life. What two-sided printing does change is how the cartridge's cost feels: the same 2,200 sides land on half the paper stack. Judge the cartridge in sides, and the rating lines up with what the printer's own page counter reports.

How do I avoid accidentally ordering the standard cyan when I reorder?

Check the code on the cartridge label or the old box before you order, and match it end to end: TN225C. The 225 marks the high-yield line for this family and the final C is the cyan slot — a 221 code would be the smaller standard cartridge, and a different final letter would be a different color. Reading the code off the spent cartridge itself, rather than from memory, takes ten seconds and prevents the one mix-up that wastes a delivery.

What should the first pages look like after I fit a fresh TN225C?

Blues and blue-greens should come back at full strength within the first page or two. The cleanest check is the machine's own test or supplies page: the cyan band should print as one solid, even block alongside the other colors. If it still prints light or broken with a new cartridge seated properly, the problem is in the printer rather than the toner, and swapping cartridges again will not change it.

About This TN225C Cyan Cartridge

The TN225C is the high-yield cyan for this Brother family — 2,200 pages at $27.88, roughly 1.27¢ per page — sized for the color that office printing drains first. Replace it on its own, or refresh everything at once with the TN221/TN225 four-color set; the full range sits on our Brother toner page.