Frequently Asked Questions

The listing title says "Cartridges" — plural. How many are actually in the box?

One. The plural in the title is catalog wording, not a quantity, and we would rather say so plainly here than let anyone order expecting a multi-pack: this listing is a single yellow cartridge, the 106R01079, at $92.31. The printer it fits feeds its colors one at a time, so a single-cartridge listing is the normal way this supply is bought — you replace the one color that ran out and leave the others in the machine.

What does yellow actually do in an ordinary office document?

More than it gets credit for. Yellow is half of every green, the base of every gold and amber, the warmth inside skin tones, and the whole of the pale highlight bands used to flag key figures in reports. A page can carry a great deal of yellow without a single obviously yellow object on it — which is why this cartridge can be working hard for months while nobody in the office could say what it is for.

Why do the highlighted sections of a report wash out before anything else does?

Because a printed highlight is the thinnest laydown of the lightest color the machine owns. When the cartridge is healthy you never notice; when it starts to starve, those pale bands are the first casualty — they fade toward white while bold colors still look almost right. Washing-out highlights on an otherwise decent page are an early, easy-to-miss low-yellow warning.

What does a page of yellow cost from this cartridge?

The cartridge is rated up to 18,000 pages, and $92.31 divided across that rating puts the yellow share of a standard page at about 0.51 cents. Busy color pages — photographs, full-bleed charts — will spend it faster than the rating assumes; text documents with a highlighted table or two will spend it slower. The figure is a planning number, and for a machine of this class it is the high-yield cartridge that keeps it near half a cent.

When is the right moment to reorder?

Earlier than feels necessary. Yellow's failure mode is quiet: by the time greens have visibly turned blue, the cartridge has been emptying for a while. Ordering when the printer first reports the yellow low — rather than when the output finally proves it — is what keeps a shared machine from spending a week printing cold, blue-shifted color work.

What backs the order if something is wrong?

Every cartridge carries a 1-year warranty with free returns for a full year, detailed on our shipping & returns page. Stock ships from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, help is staffed Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the full lineup for this printer family is gathered on the Xerox page.

About This Yellow Cartridge for the Phaser 7400

This listing serves the base machine of the family, the Phaser 7400, and the same 106R01079 cartridge also feeds the Phaser 7400DFX, Phaser 7400DN, Phaser 7400DT and Phaser 7400DX, plus the 7400N and 7400DXF builds. It is one high-yield yellow cartridge — $92.31, rated up to 18,000 pages — written for the straightforward case: the printer says the yellow is done, the label on the old cartridge reads 106R01079, and this is the single unit that goes back in.