SKU:

CS-canon_054-Yellow

Printer Brand:

Canon

OEM Number:

054Y

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

Color: 1,200

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

The low-toner warning has been on for a week and pages still look fine — can we wait?

With yellow, usually yes — for a while. Yellow fades gracefully rather than failing dramatically, and the 054Y will keep producing acceptable pages past its first warning. The tell that waiting is over is in the colours: greens slide toward blue and pages take on a cold cast. That is the honest signal to fit the new cartridge, and it is why yellow is the one cartridge people discover empty weeks after it actually ran out.

How many pages is this cartridge rated for?

About 1,200 pages — the 054Y is the standard-yield yellow of the Canon 054 family, at $31.23. Because yellow is drawn lightly in most documents, even the standard rating can cover a long stretch in a text-led office; the rating itself assumes typical pages at around 5% coverage.

Same price as the 054H yellow — what is the real difference?

Yield, and nothing else. The Canon 054H yellow, code 054HY, is also $31.23 but rated at about 2,300 pages — roughly 1.36¢ a page against this cartridge's 2.60¢. If your printer runs the 054H family, it is the better value by a wide margin; this standard cartridge is stocked for the buyers and machines that call for the Canon 054 standard specifically.

Does anything else need replacing when the yellow goes in?

No. The 054C cyan and 054M magenta are separate cartridges, and the black 054BK lives its own life too. Change what is empty; leave healthy cartridges to use up their remaining pages.

Is this an original Canon cartridge?

No — a compatible 054Y built to Canon's cartridge specification and standard-yield rating, covered by our 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns.

What does the cover actually do for us?

If the cartridge is faulty, it goes back free within the year — the full terms are on our shipping & returns page, and our support team answers Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST.

About This Canon 054 Yellow Toner Cartridge

The standard-yield 054Y yellow — about 1,200 pages of the quietest colour in the printer, the one whose absence turns every green blue. Every order is backed by a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns and ships from whichever of our IL, PA, GA or CA warehouses is closest to you. The rest of the Canon 054 range, including the high-yield family, is on our Canon page.

If the badge on your printer matches one of MF644Cdw, LBP-622Cdw, ImageClass MF641Cw and MF642Cdw, the Canon 054 range is the supply it uses. The wider shelf holds the standard-yield 054 black cartridge, the standard-yield 054 cyan cartridge and the standard-yield 054 magenta cartridge.