SKU:

CS-Xerox-C500-C

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R03866

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

Color: 9000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do photographs of sky and water fall apart before anything else when cyan gets low?

Because those images are built almost entirely from cyan. A clear sky, a swimming pool, a lake in a property brochure — all of them sit in the blue-green part of the palette, so they draw heavily on this one cartridge while using very little of the others. As the 106R03866 supply thins out, smooth blue gradients start to band into visible stripes, water shifts toward a flat grey-green, and pale skies print patchy even though ordinary text pages still look acceptable. If your photo work has gone uneven while documents remain fine, cyan is the cartridge to look at first.

My daily output is mostly letters — why is the cyan cartridge still the one that empties?

Letters are rarely as black-only as they look. A blue company masthead, a coloured email address or web link in a footer, a small chart pasted into a report and the shaded boxes in a standard template all print from the colour cartridges, page after page. Multiplied across hundreds of ordinary documents, that background use steadily consumes 106R03866 cyan even in an office that thinks of itself as printing in black and white. That is why a single cyan replacement, ordered on its own cycle, is a normal pattern for this platform rather than a sign that something is wrong.

How should I read the 9,000-page rating on a single cyan cartridge at this price?

Read it as the rated life of this cyan unit alone: up to 9,000 pages from the one 106R03866 cartridge in this listing, at $40.31 — roughly 0.45 cents per page in rated cyan cost. Your own figure will land sooner or later than that depending on how cyan-heavy the work is. Brochures, flyers and photo sheets lay down far more cyan per page than letterhead with a blue header, so a marketing-heavy C500 will work through this cartridge noticeably faster than an admin machine printing forms and correspondence.

What should I check on the cartridge coming out before I order this one?

Check the label and the slot, not just the colour warning on screen. Pull the spent unit from the cyan bay and read its code: this listing matches a cartridge labelled 106R03866. If the outgoing cyan carries a different code, stop and match that code instead — colour alone is not a safe way to order, because a cyan cartridge built for another VersaLink family will not be the right unit for this machine. If the label reads 106R03866, you have the correct single replacement and the other colours can stay undisturbed.

Which VersaLink models is this single cyan cartridge made for?

It is made for the C500 printer models — the Versalink C500 DN and the Versalink C500N — and for the C505 multifunction versions, the Versalink C505 X and the Versalink C505S. Use the badge on your machine together with the 106R03866 code on the cartridge you are replacing; when both agree, this is the cyan unit for your printer.

What happens if this cartridge develops a fault after I have fitted it?

It is covered by a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns, so a faulty unit is sorted under that cover rather than at your cost. Orders are sent from whichever of our warehouses in IL, PA, GA or CA is best placed for your address, and the full terms are on our shipping & returns page. Questions before or after ordering are answered by our support team Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the wider range for this platform sits in the Xerox section — where the other colours for this machine are listed separately, each ordered on its own as it runs down.

About This Xerox VersaLink C500 Cyan Toner Cartridge — 106R03866

This listing is one compatible cyan toner cartridge, code 106R03866, for the VersaLink C500 and C505 machines, priced at $40.31 and rated at up to 9,000 pages — about 0.45 cents per page at the rated yield. It exists for the common moment when cyan alone has given out: skies and water in photographs have started to band, and the blue in everyday templates has faded, while black, magenta and yellow still have useful life left. You renew just the spent colour and leave the rest working; the other colours for this platform are separate listings, ordered individually as each one reaches its end. The cartridge is backed by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns.