Frequently Asked Questions

How far ahead does one of these cartridges let a C2660dn office plan?

One 593-BBBR covers 4,000 rated pages of yellow — eight reams. For a shared Color Laser C2660dn printing about 300 color pages a month, that is a little over a year of yellow; at 600 a month, around six to seven months. The practical planning point: yellow rarely empties on the same week as cyan or magenta, so plan per color, not per set. When this cartridge goes in, note the date against your monthly color volume and you have a realistic reorder month for the next 593-BBBR.

Our C2660dn's greens have gone teal and the reds look flat — is it the yellow?

That pair of symptoms is yellow's signature. Yellow is the warm primary in every mix: reds are magenta plus yellow, greens are cyan plus yellow, and when the 593-BBBR runs dry both families collapse at once — greens slide teal, reds slide flat and purplish, golds disappear. Black text printing normally confirms the machine itself is fine. Check the toner gauge for the yellow slot; if it is the empty one, the cartridge behind it is the 593-BBBR listed here.

Why choose the high-yield yellow over a standard-yield one?

Changeovers and per-page cost. This 593-BBBR is rated at 4,000 pages and costs $31.82, which is about 0.80 cents per page — roughly $7.96 per thousand pages. On a workgroup machine like the C2660dn or C2665dnf, that math beats swapping smaller cartridges more often, and it cuts the number of times someone has to stop, open the machine and change a supply. High yield stops making sense only where color volume is genuinely low; a department printing color daily is exactly who this cartridge is built for.

Can we keep a spare 593-BBBR in the supply cupboard?

Yes, and for a shared machine it is sensible: one spare yellow means a mid-week run-out is a two-minute swap instead of a stalled queue. Keep it sealed, flat, and away from sunlight and radiators. Order discipline matters more than depth — one spare of each color (593-BBBT cyan, 593-BBBS magenta and this 593-BBBR yellow, alongside the 593-BBBU black) is a complete safety net for the C2660dn; a shelf of five yellows is money parked in the wrong place.

How do we confirm this is the yellow our machine takes before ordering?

Read the code off the cartridge you are replacing, or the printer's supply list: the C2660dn and C2665dnf take 593-BBBR in the yellow slot. The full set for these machines is 593-BBBU black, 593-BBBT cyan, 593-BBBS magenta and 593-BBBR yellow. Dell reuses similar codes across generations, so the check is worth the ten seconds it takes — if the outgoing yellow does not say 593-BBBR, stop and match the code it does say.

What protection comes with this compatible cartridge?

The 593-BBBR on this listing is a compatible cartridge built to Dell's specification — not a Dell-branded original — and it is covered by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns. The steps for a faulty or early-failing unit are on our shipping and returns page, and support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST. Orders ship from the nearest of our Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California warehouses; companion supplies for the machine are on our Dell toner page.

How do we confirm the new yellow has actually fixed our color problem?

Reprint the evidence. Take a document that showed the fault — something with greens, reds or gold tones that had gone teal or flat — and print it again on the fresh 593-BBBR, then compare the two sheets side by side. Greens should sit green again and reds should recover their warmth. If they do, the diagnosis and the fix are both confirmed in one step. If the same cast survives a new yellow cartridge, the problem was never the yellow supply, and that comparison sheet is exactly what to describe to support.

Does seasonal color work change how far ahead we should order yellow?

It should. A C2660dn that cruises through the year on reports can hit December — or a trade-show month, or a school term start — and suddenly print cards, banners and handouts that draw hard on yellow for golds, greens and warm backgrounds. Against the 593-BBBR's 4,000-page rating, a few heavy weeks can consume what normally lasts months. If your calendar has a color-heavy season, check the yellow gauge before it starts and bring the spare purchase forward; the cartridge keeps perfectly sealed on the shelf, and the season stops being a supply risk.

The old yellow is already gone — where else can we find the code before reordering?

On the machine itself. The C2660dn's supply information lists the cartridge code for each slot, so the yellow position will identify itself as 593-BBBR without the old unit in hand. A previous order confirmation or invoice shows it too. The point of checking either source is that Dell's color codes for this family sit one letter apart — cyan 593-BBBT, magenta 593-BBBS, yellow 593-BBBR — and ordering from memory is how the wrong color arrives. Ten seconds against the supply screen makes the reorder a certainty.

We just fitted our spare yellow — what is the reorder trigger now?

The fitting itself. A spare on the shelf is your buffer, and the moment the spare 593-BBBR goes into the machine the buffer is spent: from that day, the cartridge in the printer is the only yellow you own. Ordering the next one at that point — rather than when the fitted cartridge starts to fade months later — restores the buffer while there is still a full 4,000-page rating between you and an empty slot. Offices that reorder on fitting day rarely meet a low-toner warning they are not already covered for.

About This C2660DN Yellow Cartridge (593-BBBR)

One compatible 593-BBBR high-yield yellow cartridge for Dell's Color Laser C2660dn and C2665dnf, rated at 4,000 pages and priced at $31.82 — about 0.80 cents per rated page, sized for offices that print color every working day. It ships from our Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California warehouse and carries a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns.