SKU:

CLS-Canon-118-M

Printer Brand:

Canon

OEM Number:

2660B001AA

Ink Color:

Magenta

Page Yield:

Colors: 2,900

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do our reds print orange-brown and faces look washed out?

That is magenta running on empty, and it is the most visible color failure of the three. Magenta builds every red with yellow, and it carries the warmth in skin tones, so when this Canon 118 magenta (2660B001AA) fades, reds slide toward rust and orange, purples go dull, and people in photos look grey and tired. Text and black-and-white work stay flawless, which is why the problem survives so long — the machine seems healthy until someone prints something with a face or a red logo on it.

Magenta or yellow — the colors are wrong, but which cartridge is it?

Read the symptom. Reds turning orange-brown and photos losing their warmth points at magenta, because red is magenta plus yellow and starving the magenta half starves the red. Greens turning blue points at yellow instead. If the story is mixed, print the color test page: each cartridge lays down its own strip, and the pale, streaky strip belongs to the guilty color. Ordering the wrong color is the most common waste in color printing, and the test page costs you one sheet of paper.

Which printers use the Canon 118 magenta, part number 2660B001AA?

The imageCLASS color machines built on the Canon 118 platform — models including the ImageClass MF8350CDN, MF8380, MF8380CDW, MF8580 and MF8580CDW multifunction printers, and the LBP7200CDN, LBP7660 and LBP7660CDN printers. Check your machine's supply list for Canon 118 magenta or the number 2660B001AA; if either appears, this cartridge is made for its magenta slot. Each of the three colors in this family is slot-specific, so magenta cannot cover for a faded cyan or yellow.

How many pages will we really get from this magenta?

The rating is 2,900 pages at 5% coverage, the industry's common yardstick. What you actually get tracks your documents: an office printing letters and spreadsheets, where magenta appears in a chart or a letterhead, will run well past the rating's pace. An office printing photo sheets, event flyers and marketing pieces — pages where magenta is laid down heavily — will finish it sooner. Either way, the rating is the same basis the cyan and yellow are measured on, so the three colors can be compared honestly.

What does magenta cost per page in this family?

This single is $43.30 over a 2,900-page rating, which works out to roughly 1.49 cents per page at standard coverage. Bought inside the 3-color set, the same magenta effectively costs $30.98, so the set is the smarter route when the colors are aging together. But colors rarely age together in practice — if your test page showed magenta alone looking tired, replacing this one cartridge is the proportionate spend.

What if the new magenta streaks or the reds stay wrong?

First run the machine's color calibration after the change, and print the test page again — a fresh cartridge beside two older ones sometimes needs the machine to re-balance before colors sit right. If the magenta strip itself still prints streaky or pale, the cartridge is at fault and it is covered: a 1-year warranty against defects and 1-year free returns, with the terms on our shipping and returns page. Support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if you want help reading the test page.

About This Magenta Cartridge

This is a single compatible Canon 118 magenta toner cartridge, part number 2660B001AA, rated for up to 2,900 pages for imageCLASS color printers and multifunction machines on the 118 platform. It ships from one of our four US warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California and is backed by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. The cyan and yellow partners, the black cartridge and the 3-color and 6-color sets for the same machines are all on our Canon toner page.