Ensure professional-grade prints with the Ricoh MPC501SP toner cartridge series, which includes 842243 Black, 842244 Cyan, 842245 Magenta, and 842246 Yellow. These cartridges are engineered to deliver sharp black text and rich, vibrant color output for all your printing needs.
Designed for reliable performance, the Ricoh MPC501SP toner cartridge provides consistent print quality from the first page to the last. Whether you're producing detailed graphics or everyday office documents, these cartridges offer excellent clarity and color accuracy.
Compatible with the MPC501SP printer, these toner cartridges install easily and function seamlessly within your Ricoh device. Their high-quality formulation ensures minimal maintenance, reducing downtime and maximizing productivity.
Depend on the Ricoh MPC501SP toner cartridge to support your businesss printing demands. With long-lasting performance and outstanding print results, these cartridges are ideal for any professional printing environment.
Also fits: this cartridge fits the Ricoh MP C501SP. Ricoh's rated yields for this platform are 14,000 pages for black and 12,000 pages for each color.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our color prints suddenly look cold, bluish and a little purple — is the yellow cartridge the cause?
Very often, yes. Yellow is the warm half of the color mix, so when it runs low the balance tips the other way: skies turn steely, faces lose their warmth, greens go cold and purples take over where reds and oranges should be. The other cartridges can be perfectly healthy while this happens, because each color drains at its own rate depending on what you print. If your MP C501SP output has slowly lost its warmth rather than failing all at once, a starved yellow cartridge is the first suspect.
How can I confirm it is the yellow and not the machine itself?
Print a page that should contain strong warm tones — a photo with skin tones, wood or a sunset works well. If those areas look washed toward blue or violet while black text and the other colors stay strong, the yellow supply is the problem, not the engine. You can also remove the yellow cartridge and rock it gently side to side a few times, then print again: if warmth briefly returns, the cartridge was simply running dry and redistributing the last of its toner bought you a few pages. If colors are wrong in streaks or bands instead, that points away from a simple empty cartridge.
Do I have to change cyan and magenta at the same time?
No. Each color in the MP C501SP is its own cartridge and can be replaced on its own schedule. Swapping only the yellow restores the warm side of the mix and leaves the remaining life in your cyan, magenta and black cartridges untouched. Changing all four at once would throw away usable toner in the other three for no benefit.
At $131.58, is this cartridge honestly priced?
Straight answer: at roughly 1.10 cents per page across its 12,000-page rated life, this is not the cheapest page you will ever print, and we will not pretend otherwise. The MP C501SP is a low-volume platform, so its color cartridges cost more per page than high-runner models. What the price buys is a cartridge that is actually available for this machine, filled to the full 12,000-page rating, and backed by a real warranty instead of a gamble on old stock sitting in a warehouse.
Which printers does this yellow cartridge fit?
This cartridge is built for the Ricoh MP C501SP and drops into the yellow slot only — it is not interchangeable with the cyan, magenta or black positions. Match the color on the box to the color of the cartridge you are removing and it seats in seconds with no tools.
What if I install it and the colors still look wrong?
Then we sort it out with you. Every Clever Supplies cartridge carries a one-year warranty, and returns are free for a full year as well, so a cartridge that does not perform is replaced or refunded rather than argued over. The full terms are on our shipping & returns page, and a person — not a ticket queue — answers questions Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This Yellow Cartridge
This is the Clever Supplies compatible yellow cartridge for the Ricoh MP C501SP, rated at 12,000 pages and priced at $131.58. It exists for offices whose color output has gone cold and who need the correct, full-yield yellow for a machine that most suppliers no longer stock well. Orders ship from whichever of our warehouses — Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California — gets it to you fastest, and every cartridge is covered by a one-year warranty with one-year free returns. See the rest of the lineup for this platform on our Ricoh toner page.
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