Frequently Asked Questions

The title says "Cartridges" — how many are actually in the box?

One. This listing's name uses the plural the way supply catalogs habitually do, but the box holds a single black cartridge: the 106R02731, rated at up to 25,300 pages, priced at $45.10. Nothing is being held back — this is the one-cartridge version of the listing, and the multi-pack versions are separate listings with their own prices.

You found this by searching for a 3610 cartridge — what about the WorkCentre 3615?

Same cartridge. The printer line and the multifunction line share one supply: the Phaser 3610, Phaser 3610DN, Phaser 3610N and Phaser 3610YDN all take it, and so does the WorkCentre 3615. Copying and scanning on the 3615 ride on the same black supply as printing — there is no separate copy cartridge to hunt down.

Does duplex printing change how far 25,300 pages goes?

The rating counts printed sides, not sheets. A two-sided report of twenty sides consumes twenty pages of the rating while using ten sheets of paper. On the duplex models that is worth remembering when you estimate how long a cartridge will last: a machine that prints everything two-sided works through the same toner per document, it just halves the paper bill alongside it.

How do you know the fading on the page is the cartridge and not the printer?

Print the machine's own test or configuration page. If the built-in page comes out grey and uneven too, the problem travels with the supply, not with your documents or drivers — and a cartridge at the end of a 25,300-page rating fading exactly that way is the expected story. If the test page is deep black while your documents are pale, look at the print settings instead of ordering toner.

What does the per-page math look like on this single?

$45.10 across 25,300 rated pages is about 0.18 cents per page — the highest per-page figure in this cartridge's family, because singles always carry the least favorable math. It is still the right size for a machine whose volume is modest or unpredictable: you pay a small premium per page in exchange for not tying money up in cartridges you may not open for a year.

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 is available 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 Cartridge (106R02731)

This is the model-named single: one compatible black cartridge for the Phaser 3610 line and the WorkCentre 3615, $45.10, rated up to 25,300 pages. It exists for the buyer who shops by the name on the printer rather than the code on the cartridge — same supply either way, bought one at a time, with the platform's long extra-high-yield rating doing the heavy lifting on value.