Cross-reference: Genuine cartridge numbers: Black 841280, Cyan 841281, Magenta 841282, Yellow 841283. Yields: Black 10,000 pages, Cyan/Magenta/Yellow 5,500 pages each. Fits Ricoh Aficio MP C2030, MP C2050, MP C2550; also sold for Savin C9020L, C9020, C9025, Lanier LD520C, LD525C and Gestetner MP C2030, MP C2050, MP C2550.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our greens are printing blue and skin tones look gray — could the yellow cartridge really be the cause?

Very likely, yes. Yellow is the quiet ingredient in almost every warm tone: greens are cyan plus yellow, and skin tones, wood and food photography all lean on it. When the yellow runs low, those colors drift cold and blue long before plain yellow areas look wrong, so the symptom rarely points at the cartridge that is actually empty.

Why does yellow cost more per page than the black cartridge in this machine?

Two honest reasons stack up: this yellow cartridge is rated at 5,500 pages against the black cartridge's 10,000, and at $80.18 it works out to roughly 1.46 cents per page — the priciest color in this family. We will not dress that up as cheap color printing. What you are paying for is a cartridge that is still available for an older platform, with the store's warranty and returns standing behind it.

We barely print anything that looks yellow. Why is this cartridge the empty one?

Because "looks yellow" and "uses yellow" are different things. Every green leaf, warm photo, skin tone and golden highlight in your documents is built partly from yellow toner, and the machine's own calibration cycles consume a little as well. A cartridge can empty on work that never shows a yellow object on the page.

Which printers does this yellow cartridge work in?

This is the 841283 yellow cartridge for the shared platform behind Ricoh Aficio MP C2030, MP C2050 and MP C2530 — the Ricoh Aficio MP C2030, MP C2050 and MP C2530 take the same cartridge. This listing names the C2030, but the cartridge itself is the platform's common yellow, not a C2030-only part.

How do I know it is time to order before the colors go wrong?

Watch the machine's toner gauge rather than your output — by the time greens shift, the cartridge is already effectively done. A practical rule: when the display shows yellow at about 20 percent, order the replacement and keep printing; at 5,500 rated pages in a color-using office, that last stretch goes faster than most people expect.

What happens if this cartridge leaks or prints badly after I install it?

Then it comes back to us. Every cartridge we sell carries a one-year warranty and one year of free returns under our shipping and returns policy — contact us within that year and we will replace it or refund it. Support hours are Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Ricoh 841283 Yellow Toner Cartridge

This listing is the single yellow cartridge (841283, $80.18) for the Ricoh Aficio MP C2030 family, rated at 5,500 pages — about 1.46 cents per page, the highest of the set, stated plainly rather than spun. Yellow does invisible work in greens, skin tones and warm imagery, so it often empties before anyone prints a yellow page. Orders ship from our warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, and the cartridge is covered by a one-year warranty with one year of free returns.