Frequently Asked Questions

Why has every color print started to look cold?

Warmth on a printed page comes mostly from one cartridge: yellow. When it runs down, the balance tips toward blue — grass goes teal, wood tones go gray, faces lose their warmth, and even a company logo can look like it was printed on a different machine. Text documents give no warning at all, because black never touches the yellow supply. When the complaint is "everything looks cold" rather than "everything looks faded," the yellow cartridge is the first suspect.

How long should one of these actually last in everyday use?

The 106R01394 is rated at up to 5,900 pages at the standard 5% page coverage, and at $55.94 that is roughly 0.95 cents a page. Ordinary office color — letters with a chart, a highlighted agenda, the odd photo — lands reasonably near that figure. Full-page photographs and dense colored backgrounds spend several times the standard coverage per sheet, so a picture-heavy month will shorten the run. Judge it by your mix rather than by the calendar.

The listing says "Cartridges" — am I buying a set?

No — you are buying one cartridge. The plural is the wording this range is catalogued under; what ships is a single sealed high-yield yellow unit, the 106R01394, at $55.94. That is the right buy when the printer is asking for yellow alone: colors are replaced one at a time as each runs out, and there is no set here to split up or store.

The low warning appeared halfway through a long print run — stop, or carry on?

You can carry on. A fading yellow cartridge does not fall off a cliff; it drifts, so internal drafts will come out perfectly usable. But the drift is real: the last pages of the run will be colder than the first. For anything leaving the building — a proposal, a handout, a photo — swap in the fresh cartridge first and rerun, so the whole set matches. For rough work, run the old one out and change it afterward.

How do I check the yellow level without wasting a test page?

Use the supplies section of the printer's front-panel menu, which shows the remaining level of each cartridge individually. It is worth a look the moment colors first seem off, because the readout plus what you see on paper settles the question together: a low yellow reading and a page of blue-looking grass mean the same thing from two directions. No page has to be printed to find out.

What happens if the cartridge turns out to be faulty?

Send it back on us. Every cartridge is covered by a 1-year warranty, with free returns running for a full year — the detail is set out on our shipping and returns page. We dispatch from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and our support team answers Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Xerox 6280 Yellow Toner Cartridge (106R01394)

This is the single high-yield yellow cartridge for the Phaser 6280 — part number 106R01394, priced at $55.94 and rated at up to 5,900 pages, and the same unit also serves the Phaser 6280DN. It is the cartridge that keeps an office's color warm: greens that stay green, oranges that stay orange. When the machine asks for yellow, this one sealed unit is the whole answer. You will find the remaining cartridges for this printer on our Xerox page.