SKU:

CLS-Canon-118-Y-1

Printer Brand:

Canon

OEM Number:

2659B001AA

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

Colors: 2,900

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does one light color matter so much in charts, highlights and logos?

Because yellow is doing more work in business documents than anyone credits it with. Every green in your charts is yellow mixed with cyan. Every warm shade in a logo, every gold or cream tone, every highlighted line in a report depends on it. When this Canon 118 yellow (2659B001AA) runs low, the damage shows up in exactly the documents an office prints to look professional: pie charts lose a segment color, the brand green turns blue, and highlighted text prints as if the marker was never there. Documents still come out of the machine — they just quietly stop looking like yours.

Our greens print blue — is that a yellow fault or a cyan fault?

Nine times out of ten, yellow. Green is built from cyan and yellow together, so when yellow fades, the cyan works alone and the green collapses toward blue. A cyan fault looks different: blues and teals lose their depth while greens stay roughly green. The machine's test page settles it in one print — compare the yellow strip against the cyan strip and the weaker one names itself. If the yellow strip is the pale one, this is the cartridge that fixes your greens.

Which machines take the 2659B001AA yellow cartridge?

It is the yellow for the Canon 118 family, used by imageCLASS color machines such as the ImageClass MF8350, MF8350CDN, MF8380CDW, MF8580CDW and MF8330CDN, and by the LBP7200, LBP7200CDN, LBP7660 and LBP7660CDN printers. The simplest confirmation is the cartridge already in your yellow slot or the supply list in your manual: Canon 118 yellow and 2659B001AA are the same cartridge under its family name and its part number.

We have more than one machine using this yellow — how should we stock it?

One shared spare is the sweet spot for most small offices. Because every machine on the Canon 118 platform drinks from the same yellow cartridge, a single shelf spare covers whichever machine fades first, and at this family's prices that is cheap insurance against a color job stopping mid-run. Write the arrival month on the box, store it sealed and flat in a cool dry place, and rotate it in when the first machine calls for yellow — then reorder at your leisure instead of in a panic.

What does a page of yellow actually cost us?

This cartridge is $43.30 and rated at 2,900 pages, so at the standard 5% coverage the yellow in your documents costs about 1.49 cents per page. Real documents vary: a page of charts spends more yellow than a letter with one highlighted paragraph, so treat the figure as the planning average it is. If your office replaces colors together, note that the 3-color set prices each cartridge at $30.98 — worth knowing before you order three singles across the year.

What if this cartridge disappoints when it goes in?

Then it comes back. Every cartridge we sell carries a 1-year warranty against defects and 1-year free returns if it does not perform as it should, and this Canon 118 yellow is no exception. The details are on our shipping and returns page, and support answers Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if you want a hand with the test page first. You are not gambling on a compatible cartridge — you are trying one with the exit already paid for.

About This Yellow Cartridge

One compatible Canon 118 yellow toner cartridge, part number 2659B001AA, rated for up to 2,900 pages on the imageCLASS color platform. We stock it in the US and ship from our warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and it is covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. Offices keeping several 118-platform machines usually pair this single with the matching cyan and magenta or step up to the color sets — the full family is on our Canon toner page.