Frequently Asked Questions

My prints are losing their blues — is cyan the cartridge to change?

Very likely. When cyan runs dry, skies wash out, logos lose their blue and greens start leaning yellow, while black text stays perfectly sharp. The fix is this TK592C cartridge: it is the cyan member of the TK592 family, made for the cyan slot only, and rated at 5,000 pages at standard coverage.

How do I confirm this is the right code before ordering?

Open the front cover and read the label on the cartridge in the cyan position — it should say TK592C. The last letter of the code is the color key across this family: C for cyan, M for magenta, Y for yellow and K for black. Matching that letter to the slot you are changing is the whole check.

Is there anything worth trying before I swap the cartridge?

Yes — take the old cartridge out and rock it gently side to side a few times, then refit it. Toner settles toward one end as a cartridge empties, and redistributing it often buys a few more clean pages. If the blues still come back weak on the next run, the cartridge is genuinely spent and this replacement goes in.

Will changing cyan disturb the other three cartridges?

Not at all. Each color sits in its own slot and comes out on its own. You slide the cyan unit out, slide this one in, and the black, magenta and yellow cartridges carry on exactly where they were — nothing else needs to come out or be reset.

What does a 5,000-page rating mean in a small office?

It is measured at standard coverage, and color is usually a small share of an ordinary office page, so a cyan cartridge typically lasts far longer in calendar time than the raw number suggests. Offices that print mostly text with the odd color chart often go many months between cyan changes.

Is this the full-size cartridge or a small starter version?

Full size. This TK592C carries the complete 5,000-page rating, the same as the cyan unit supplied in the multi-cartridge sets — not a reduced-fill starter of the kind sometimes shipped inside a new printer.

Can I keep printing once the cyan cartridge is empty?

The machine may let you, but color work will come out wrong in the meantime: without TK592C in play, blues wash out and greens lean yellow, so charts and logos printed during the gap usually end up being reprinted anyway. Black text is untouched and can keep flowing, but treat any important color job as a reason to fit the replacement first.

How can I confirm cyan is the problem before I order?

Print something whose colors you know by heart — your company logo or a standard chart page. If the blues are pale and the greens have drifted toward yellow while the black text stays crisp, cyan is the empty channel. One known page is a better test than guessing from a document you have never seen printed correctly before.

Is it worth keeping a spare cyan cartridge on the shelf?

For most offices, yes. Cyan rarely announces itself with a hard stop; it fails quietly through washed-out color, and by the time someone notices, a color job is usually waiting. A sealed TK592C in the cupboard turns that moment into a two-minute change. Store it sealed, flat, at room temperature and out of direct sunlight, and it will wait patiently.

What does the cyan cartridge cost per page in practice?

The TK592C is $39.43 for a 5,000-page rating, which is about 0.79 cents per page at standard coverage. In practice the effective figure is far gentler: cyan is only one ingredient of a color page and plays no part in text pages at all, so across a month of mixed office printing the cyan cost riding on each sheet is a small fraction of that headline number.

About This TK592C Cyan Cartridge

A single cyan replacement for the TK592 family of Kyocera printers, priced at $39.43 and rated at 5,000 pages. It serves the FS-C2026MFP and FS-C2126MFP, the FS-C2526MFP and FS-C2626MFP, and the FS-C5250DN — machines whose color work tends to fade one channel at a time, so the sensible purchase is the one cartridge the printer is actually asking for. It comes with a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, as set out on our shipping & returns page. Part of our compatible Kyocera-Mita range, dispatched from our IL, PA, GA and CA warehouses, with support Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.