Frequently Asked Questions

Why do small offices change all three colours in one go instead of waiting for each one to run dry?

Because on a shared office printer the three colours live similar lives. They went in around the same time, they have been drawn on by the same reports, charts and letterheads, and when the first one starts fading the other two are rarely far behind. Changing cyan, magenta and yellow in a single session means one interruption instead of three spread across the month, and afterwards every colour in the machine is the same age — which is why colour output tends to look steadier after a full refresh: no fresh cartridge is compensating for two tired partners on the same page. It also reduces the buying to one order and one delivery, which suits an office that would rather not think about toner again for a good while.

What exactly arrives in this set?

Three cartridges, one of each colour in the extra-high-capacity range for this platform: cyan 106R03690, magenta 106R03691 and yellow 106R03692. Each unit is rated at up to 4,300 pages, so the trio carries 12,900 rated pages in total, 4,300 sitting in each colour position. There is no black cartridge in the box — black is worked through on its own schedule of text and line work and is stocked under its own listing, so this set is purely the colour side of the printer, complete in one parcel.

How does the money work out per cartridge and per page?

The set is $41.11 for the three cartridges, which is about $13.70 for each 4,300-page colour unit. Spread across the trio's 12,900 rated pages, the colour side costs roughly 0.32 cents per rated page. Both figures are worked on the rated basis the yield numbers themselves use — pages at the standard 5% coverage measure — so they compare fairly with other cartridges quoted the same way. Pages carrying solid colour backgrounds or dense graphics draw more toner than the measure assumes and will pull the real cost per page up somewhat; text pages with a coloured heading pull it the other way.

How long is a set likely to last a typical small office?

Work it from the colour position, not the box. A colour page draws on all three cartridges, and each position holds 4,300 rated pages, so a desk printing around 300 colour pages a month is looking at well over a year before the first colour is spent; at 800 colour pages a month, nearer five to six months. The colours will not finish on the same day — a chart-heavy office leans hardest on cyan, a photo-heavy one spreads the load — but they finish in the same season, which is the point of buying them together: the next refresh is one order, not three emergencies.

Will this set fit my printer?

It is made for the two machines on this shared colour platform: the Phaser 6510 and the WorkCentre 6515. The surest check is the label on a cartridge coming out: if the colours in your machine carry the codes 106R03690, 106R03691 and 106R03692, this set is the like-for-like colour refresh. One caution — the same printers also accept a standard-capacity colour range (its cyan is the 106R03477, rated at 2,400 pages), and those cartridges look alike on the shelf. If your outgoing units are from that range, match those codes instead; fitting the extra-high trio where the standards came out works perfectly well, but order knowingly rather than by shape.

What happens if one cartridge out of the three misbehaves?

Each cartridge is covered on its own: a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns apply per unit, so a cartridge that leaks, bands or fades early is replaced or refunded on its own and the other two stay in the printer and stay covered. Parcels leave whichever of our four warehouses — Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California — is closest to the delivery address, and the full postage and returns detail is on our shipping & returns page. If you want a person to confirm the codes before you order, the support team answers Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Three-Cartridge Colour Set for the Xerox 6510 and 6515

This listing is the complete colour side of the Xerox 6510/6515 platform in one box: cyan 106R03690, magenta 106R03691 and yellow 106R03692, one cartridge of each, every unit an extra-high-capacity fill rated at up to 4,300 pages — 12,900 rated pages across the set — priced at $41.11, about $13.70 per cartridge and roughly 0.32 cents per rated page. It suits a small office or workgroup that prints colour steadily and prefers its maintenance in single sessions: one order, one printer visit, and a colour engine whose three cartridges are all the same age afterwards. Black is stocked separately for these machines. Every cartridge carries a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, and the wider Xerox toner range for the platform is on the site.