Frequently Asked Questions

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

One. The plural wording is leftover catalog phrasing for the 6128 line, but what ships is a single magenta cartridge, part number 106R01453, for $33.49. That is also all the machine asks for: the printer holds one magenta unit at a time, and this box refills that one slot with a cartridge rated for up to 2,500 pages.

We print sale flyers every week and magenta always dies first — why?

Because your flyers are secretly magenta documents. Every red headline, sale burst and warm product photo is printed as magenta mixed with yellow, so a red-heavy workload drains this cartridge faster than any other color in the machine. Black text barely touches it. If your shop runs weekly promotions, magenta is simply the hardest-working cartridge you own, and its early exit is arithmetic, not a defect.

The color started fading halfway through a flyer run — swap now or finish the batch?

Swap now. Fading does not pause politely at page boundaries: once the toner layer thins, every subsequent sheet drifts further off-color, and a half-faded batch looks worse than a short delay. Pull the old unit, seat the fresh 106R01453, print one test page to confirm the reds are back, and restart the run — your customers will never see the seam.

Is the 2,500-page figure honest for flyer printing?

It is honest about how it is measured: 2,500 pages at 5% coverage, the standard every maker uses. A text page with a red header lands near that mark; a full-bleed photo flyer can use five to ten times as much magenta per sheet. Budget by your real mix — if most of your output is bold color, expect the count to land well under the headline number, which is true of any cartridge you buy.

Does rocking the old cartridge side to side actually buy more pages?

A few, sometimes. A gentle rock redistributes the toner left inside and can coax out a short run of acceptable pages — enough to finish an urgent letter, not enough to save a flyer batch. Treat it as a bridge to the delivery day, keep the prints it produces to internal use, and order the replacement the same day you resort to it.

How am I covered if this cartridge disappoints?

It carries a 1-year warranty, and you have a full year of free returns if it is not right for your machine — full terms are posted on our shipping and returns page. We dispatch from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, and a real support team is on hand Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Xerox 6128 Magenta Toner Cartridge (106R01453)

Built for the color workhorse of the small office — the Phaser 6128MFP and its networked sibling, the Phaser 6128MFP/N — this single compatible magenta cartridge carries part number 106R01453, costs $33.49, and is rated for up to 2,500 pages, about 1.34 cents per page. It is the cartridge a flyer-printing shop leans on hardest, sized for regular color work without paying for capacity you will never use. Browse everything else for your machine on our Xerox page.