SKU:

CLS-Canon-118-C

Printer Brand:

Canon

OEM Number:

2661B001AA

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

Colors: 2,900

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Our skies print grey and the greens look muddy — is cyan the cartridge to blame?

Very often, yes. Cyan is the cartridge that builds blues and half of every green, so when it runs low the symptoms show up there first: skies wash out to a grey-blue, teal logos lose their punch and greens turn brownish because the yellow half of the mix is suddenly working alone. Black text stays perfectly sharp through all of this, which is why the problem gets misdiagnosed as a printer fault. Print the machine's color test page and look at the cyan block specifically — if it prints pale or streaky while the other blocks look solid, this Canon 118 cyan cartridge (2661B001AA) is the replacement that answers it.

How many pages will one Canon 118 cyan cartridge actually print?

It is rated at 2,900 pages, measured at the standard 5% page coverage the whole industry uses. Treat that number as a yardstick rather than a promise. A page with a small color chart uses a fraction of the cyan that a full-page photo or a solid blue presentation background uses, so a graphics-heavy office will finish the cartridge sooner and a letters-and-invoices office will stretch it much further. What the rating does guarantee is a fair comparison: every Canon 118 color is rated on the same basis, at 2,900 pages each.

Which printers take this exact cyan cartridge?

This is the cyan cartridge for the Canon 118 family, part number 2661B001AA, and it serves the imageCLASS color machines built on that platform — models such as the ImageClass MF8350CDN, MF8380CDW, MF8580CDW, MF8330CDN and the LBP7200CDN and LBP7660CDN printers. If your machine's supply list names the Canon 118 in cyan, or the part number 2661B001AA, this is the cartridge that belongs in the cyan slot. The three colors in this family are not interchangeable with each other, so match the color as well as the family.

What does the blue in our documents cost per page?

At $43.30 for a cartridge rated at 2,900 pages, the cyan works out to roughly 1.49 cents per page at standard coverage. That is the honest single-cartridge figure: a single is the most flexible way to buy, but it is also the most expensive per cartridge. If all three colors are aging together, the 3-color set brings the per-cartridge price down to $30.98. For a machine where only the cyan has faded, though, replacing just this one cartridge is the cheaper decision today.

The new cyan is in and the blues still look wrong — what now?

Start with the machine, not the cartridge. Run the printer's built-in color calibration or gradation adjustment, which re-balances all four cartridges after any change, then print the test page again. If one color block still prints unevenly, remove this cartridge, rock it gently side to side to redistribute the toner, and reseat it firmly. If the cyan block stays pale after that, call us — support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and a cartridge that does not perform is covered, as the next answer explains.

What cover do I get if this cartridge fails or prints badly?

Two layers of it. The cartridge carries a 1-year warranty against defects, and it is backed by 1-year free returns if it does not perform as it should — you are not stuck with a bad cartridge because you chose a compatible one. The full terms are on our shipping and returns page. Between the warranty and the returns window, trying this cyan in your machine is a low-risk decision.

About This Cyan Cartridge

This is a single compatible Canon 118 cyan toner cartridge, part number 2661B001AA, rated for up to 2,900 pages and built for the imageCLASS color printers and multifunction machines that share the 118 platform. It ships from one of our four US warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and it is covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. The rest of the compatible range for this platform — the other two colors, the black, and the money-saving sets — is on our Canon toner page.