Frequently Asked Questions

Ten cartridges is a quarter of a million pages — who prints that much?

Facilities, schools, clinics, busy back offices — anywhere several monochrome machines run all day, every day. Ten 106R02731 cartridges total 253,000 rated pages, just over five hundred reams. If that number sounds absurd, this pack is not aimed at your printer; if it sounds like roughly a year, you are exactly who it is priced for.

What is the deepest-discount math in this cartridge's family?

$284.61 for ten is $28.46 per cartridge — the lowest per-cartridge price in the range, saving $166.39 against ten singles at $45.10. Per page it works out to roughly 0.11 cents of toner, the floor for this platform. The ladder is honest: every step up in pack size buys the per-page cost down, and this is the bottom step.

Which machines does a stock of ten actually serve?

All of them on the platform, interchangeably: the Phaser 3610, Phaser 3610DN, Phaser 3610N, Phaser 3610YDN and the WorkCentre 3615. A single code across printers and the multifunction model is what makes a ten-deep stock practical — the shelf never has to guess which machine will fade next.

Who should NOT buy the 10-pack?

The light user with one machine and modest volume. If a single 25,300-page cartridge lasts your office most of a year, ten of them would sit on the shelf for the better part of a decade — long enough for machines to be replaced and the stock to outlive the platform it feeds. The per-page saving is real, but it only pays if the pages actually get printed; the 2-pack and 3-pack exist for honest volumes.

How do you manage a stock this size without losing track?

Treat it like the consumable it is: one storage spot, boxes dated on arrival, installs drawn strictly from the oldest, and a reorder conversation when the shelf drops to two. The failure mode at this quantity is not spoilage — sealed cartridges keep well in a normal room — it is invisibility: stock spread across three closets gets double-bought. One shelf, counted at a glance, is the whole system.

What protection comes with the purchase?

A 1-year warranty and free returns for a full year, under the terms on our shipping & returns page. Orders ship from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, support runs Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the rest of the range for these machines lives on the Xerox supplies page.

About This 3610 Black 10-Pack (106R02731)

Ten compatible 106R02731 black cartridges, $284.61, a quarter of a million rated pages. This is the annual-stock listing for high-volume monochrome fleets: the lowest per-cartridge and per-page cost the platform offers, bought once and drawn down across every 3610-series printer and WorkCentre 3615 in the building. It rewards exactly one thing — volume that is genuinely there.