SKU:

CS-Xerox-C400-Y

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R03525

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

Color: 8000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why have my prints turned slightly blue and cold, and why do yellow areas now come out cream or almost white?

Yellow is the warm ingredient in almost every mixed shade, so when it thins out the page loses its warmth first. Lemons, highlight markers, taxi-yellow logos and pale gold backgrounds fade toward cream and then toward plain white, while the cyan and magenta still on the sheet are left unbalanced — and that imbalance reads to the eye as a cool, bluish cast over photographs and graphics. Nothing has gone wrong with the blue parts of your printer; the missing part is the yellow that used to sit underneath them. Fitting this 106R03525 cartridge restores that warmth.

Everything looks pale, yet no single color looks finished — could yellow really be the one that is low?

Yes, and yellow is the color most often missed for exactly that reason. A weak cyan or magenta announces itself loudly in blues and reds, but a weak yellow quietly dilutes the whole page: greens lose their freshness, oranges soften, skin tones look drained, and the output simply feels washed out rather than obviously wrong in one place. Because there is no dramatic single-color failure to point at, offices frequently blame the paper or the file. If the overall picture has gone flat and cold while text remains sharp, treat yellow as a prime suspect and check it before the more obvious colors.

How do I check yellow on a test page when it is so hard to see against white paper?

Print the machine's color test page and take it to good, daylight-style light, then look at the yellow block at an angle rather than straight down — pale yellow on white is far easier to judge that way. A healthy block is solid, even and unmistakably golden; a failing one looks patchy, streaked, watery, or so light it nearly disappears next to the solid cyan and magenta blocks beside it. Compare the edges of the block as well as its center. If yellow is the faint, broken block while the others hold firm, this 106R03525 is the replacement you need.

Which everyday documents quietly use up yellow, even when the page shows little yellow at all?

More of them than most people expect. Yellow is blended into leaf and grass greens, into orange headings and autumn tones, into wood, sand and many skin tones, and into warm greys that look neutral at a glance — none of which display an obvious patch of yellow for you to notice. A run of landscape photos, food pictures, property listings or green-and-orange charts can therefore draw this cartridge down steadily while your files seem to contain barely any yellow. This single cartridge is rated at up to 8,000 pages and costs $44.62, around 0.56 cents per page at rated coverage, but that hidden mixing work is why color-heavy offices reach the end of it sooner than the rating alone might suggest.

Which VersaLink models does this yellow cartridge fit?

It is made for the C400 printer family — Versalink C400, Versalink C400 D and Versalink C400 DN — together with the C405 multifunction models, namely the Versalink C405 MFP, Versalink C405DN and Versalink C405N. Before ordering, read the code printed on the yellow cartridge currently in your machine and match it to 106R03525 shown here.

What happens with delivery, returns and getting help if I am unsure about the diagnosis?

Your order is dispatched from one of our warehouses in IL, PA, GA or CA, and this cartridge is covered by a 1-year warranty along with 1-year free returns; the full terms are on our shipping & returns page. Yellow faults are genuinely tricky to call, so if you want to talk the symptoms through first, our support team is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST. You can also look through the wider assortment in our Xerox section.

About This Xerox VersaLink C400 Yellow Toner Cartridge — 106R03525

Yellow is the cartridge offices misdiagnose the longest, because its absence disguises itself as a cold tint, a pale photograph or a logo that has mysteriously turned cream. This compatible yellow cartridge, code 106R03525, is the individual answer for VersaLink C400 and C405 machines: priced at $44.62, rated at up to 8,000 pages, and supplied on its own so you can renew the one faded warm color without removing cartridges that are still working well — the other colors for this platform are listed separately. It suits workplaces whose greens, oranges and warm tones have lost their life even though no color looked empty. It is backed by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns.