SKU:

CS-Kyocera-Mita_TK8309_Y

Printer Brand:

Kyocera-Mita

OEM Number:

TK8309Y

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

Color: 15000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I know the yellow is the cartridge that has run out?

Yellow rarely announces itself directly. The giveaway is in the colors around it: greens drift toward blue, warm skin tones go cold, and yellows in charts print pale or vanish altogether while text stays crisp. When a TASKalfa 3050ci shows that pattern — and the same holds on the TASKalfa 3051ci, TASKalfa 3550ci and TASKalfa 3551ci — the TK8309Y yellow is the cartridge to check first.

Is TK8309Y the full order code I should match?

Yes. TK8309Y is the complete code for this yellow cartridge — the trailing Y is what separates it from the cyan, magenta and black members of the same family. Match that exact code against the label on the cartridge you are pulling out and you have the right replacement in hand.

How long does one yellow cartridge last?

It is rated at 15,000 pages at standard coverage — the same rating as every other color in this family. Yellow tends to drain quietly because it sits underneath so many mixed colors, which is why it can feel like it empties sooner than the black even at an equal rating; dense full-color work will pull that figure down, light office documents will stretch it.

Can I finish a job before swapping it in?

Black-and-white work, yes — text printing does not draw on the yellow at all. Color work is the risk: every page printed with an empty yellow comes out with its balance shifted, and on customer-facing documents that usually means reprinting the batch once the new cartridge is in. The swap itself takes a couple of minutes, so most offices change it the moment the color shift shows.

Is this a full-size cartridge or a reduced starter?

Full size, at the complete 15,000-page rating. This is the standard replacement TK8309Y, not a reduced-fill unit of the kind sometimes bundled with a new machine, and at $88.30 it is the cartridge you would keep reordering for the life of the printer.

What cover comes with this cartridge?

A one-year warranty with one-year free returns — the details are on our shipping & returns page. Orders ship from whichever of our Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California warehouses is closest to you, and support is available Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

Which jobs pull the yellow down fastest?

Full-color work: charts with yellow highlights, photographs with warm tones, and any document where yellow sits underneath greens and oranges. Text printing barely touches the TK8309Y at all, which is why a text-heavy office can run months without noticing it — and why a sudden run of color presentations can drain it in weeks. If your yellow seems to vanish faster than the other colors, look at what changed in your print mix rather than at the cartridge: a color-heavy month is the usual explanation.

What does the yellow cost per page?

At $88.30 against its 15,000-page rating, the TK8309Y costs just under 0.6 cents per page at standard coverage. Yellow is the hardest color to cost honestly, because so much of it is consumed invisibly inside mixed colors — the greens and warm tones on the page all draw on it — so treat the rating as the benchmark for ordinary office documents and expect dense full-color work to pull the real figure higher, exactly as the rating warns.

How do I confirm it is the yellow before I order, and not the cyan?

Run the machine's test page and look at the color bands one by one. If the yellow band is pale or broken while the cyan and magenta bands print solid, the TK8309Y is the cartridge that has run out — even if the prints themselves only showed the problem as greens drifting blue. If the cyan band is the weak one instead, the yellow still has life and ordering it would leave the real fault in the machine.

When is the best moment to swap the yellow?

Before a color-critical job, not after it. Check the supply screen on the morning of a big presentation or client print run: if the yellow is low, fit the fresh TK8309Y first and print a test page, so the job goes out with its greens and warm tones intact. Swapping after the run means reprinting the batch — the change itself takes a couple of minutes, and the reprint costs far more than the two minutes you saved by waiting.

About This TK8309Y Yellow Cartridge

The TK8309Y is the yellow member of Kyocera-Mita's TK8309 family for the TASKalfa 3050ci platform, rated at 15,000 pages and priced at $88.30. Yellow is the cartridge offices forget until the greens go wrong, which makes it a sensible one to keep sealed on the shelf rather than discover mid-job. It is part of our compatible Kyocera-Mita toner range, and like every cartridge in that range it is covered for a full year.