Also fits: This cartridge fits the Ricoh Aficio MP C306, MP C307, MP C406 and MP C407 — the same machines also sold under the Savin and Lanier brands with the same model names. Ricoh's rated yields for this platform are 17,000 pages for black and 6,000 pages for each color.

Frequently Asked Questions

We print almost nothing that looks yellow — why is the yellow cartridge the empty one?

Because yellow hides inside other colors: every green is cyan plus yellow, warm grays and skin tones lean on it, and photographs spend it constantly. The machine's own cleaning and calibration cycles also use small amounts of each color, yellow included. A page does not need to look yellow to have used yellow.

Why is yellow so hard to judge by looking at the prints?

Yellow is the palest color the machine lays down, so a shortage shows up indirectly — greens shift blue, warm tones go cold, and photos lose their sunlight — rather than as an obviously missing color. The panel gauge is a far better guide than eyeballing output. Treat a low reading as real even when pages still look acceptable.

How long should 6,000 pages of yellow last us?

In a text-first office that prints color occasionally, a year or more is realistic, since plain pages never touch it. Workflows heavy on charts, photos or marketing pieces will move through it in months, because the rating assumes only about 5% coverage per page. Received color faxes and color copies count against it too.

What is the honest per-page cost of this yellow cartridge?

At $53.88 for 6,000 rated pages, the yellow component alone is about 0.90 cents per page at standard coverage — the same story as the other colors on this platform, and not cheap. There is no way to dress that up: this machine's strength is inexpensive black printing, with color as a useful extra. Budget color work accordingly.

Is this cartridge specific to the MPC406 named in the title?

No — the title names one model, but the 842094 yellow cartridge is shared by the entire Ricoh MP C306, MP C307 and MP C406 platform, and every machine in that compact color family uses this same yellow. If your machine belongs to that family, this is its yellow cartridge.

What protection do I get with it?

A one-year warranty covers the cartridge, and free returns run for a full year if it underperforms — the full policy is on our shipping and returns page. Only the affected cartridge needs to go back, not anything else you ordered. Support hours are Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Yellow Toner Cartridge

This compatible yellow cartridge (842094) is rated at 6,000 pages for the Ricoh MP C306 / C307 / C406 platform, sold here under the MPC406 listing name, and priced at $53.88. Yellow quietly underpins greens, warm tones and photo color, and at roughly 0.90 cents per rated page it shares the colors' premium over this machine's cheap black output. It ships from IL, PA, GA or CA, and the full cartridge range for the platform is on our Ricoh toner page.