SKU:

CS-Xerox-C600-C

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R03896

Ink Color:

Cyan

Page Yield:

Color: 6000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Skies in our printed photos come out lavender-grey instead of blue. Why?

Because a sky is nearly pure cyan work. A photograph's blue sky, open water and swimming pools are built mostly from the cyan cartridge with only light support from the others, so when cyan runs low those are the first regions to collapse — blue loses its depth, shifts toward lavender, and finally flattens into a greyish wash. Faces and reds in the same photo can look perfectly fine while the sky gives the shortage away. On the VersaLink C600, that washed-out sky is the 106R03896 asking to be replaced.

We hardly print anything blue. How did cyan run out first?

Cyan is the quiet background color in far more than blue. It hides inside every green leaf and teal accent, inside the composite greys your printer mixes instead of using black, and inside the shading of ordinary charts and screenshots. A workload that feels black-and-white on paper can still sip cyan page after page, and photo work drinks it outright. So the cartridge nobody thinks about is often the one that empties first — the empty is real even when the blue habit is not.

Can I confirm cyan is the empty one before ordering?

Yes, in about a minute, from the machine itself. Print the supplies or demo page from the control panel and look at the solid color bars: each bar shows one cartridge printing alone. Cyan that is still working prints a rich, even band; cyan that is finished comes out pale, broken or streaked no matter how good the other three bars look. That single page separates a toner problem from a settings problem, and it names the exact cartridge — no test prints wasted, no parts ordered on a hunch.

The old cartridge reads 106R03896. Do I reorder by that code alone?

By that code alone, yes. It identifies the color, the yield class and the printer family at once, and it is carried in this listing's title precisely so the match is unambiguous. The same 106R03896 serves the Versalink C600 and the Versalink C605, so the model on your desk does not change the answer. Read the stamp off the cartridge in your hand, order the listing that carries it, and the swap itself is a tool-free, two-minute job.

What will 6,000 rated pages mean for our photo-heavy printing?

Less than the headline, honestly — and that is normal. The rating is set at about 5% coverage per page, while a printed photo can cover most of the sheet, much of it cyan sky and water. At $57.89, this cartridge lands near 0.96 cents per rated page; under photo workloads your real page count will land well below 6,000 because each page simply spends more toner. Judge the cartridge by whether the color comes back true, and use the rating the way it is meant to be used — as a consistent yardstick between cartridges, not a promise about photographs.

What if the cartridge arrives damaged or the color stays off?

Then it comes back to us, free. The cartridge is covered by a one-year warranty with free returns for the entire year — damage in transit, a faulty unit, or color that never comes right all qualify. Orders are dispatched from our warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA; the complete terms are on our shipping and returns page if you want them in full. If you would rather describe the symptoms first, support is staffed Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This 106R03896 Cyan Toner Cartridge

This listing is one Clever Supplies compatible cyan cartridge replacing the Xerox 106R03896, rated at 6,000 pages and priced at $57.89 — about 0.96 cents per rated page. Cyan rarely gets the credit, yet it carries the skies, the water, half of every green and a share of every grey your printer produces; when it fades, photographs tell on it first. Keeping the fix simple is the point of this page: the code on the cartridge you pulled out is the code in the title above, and matching the two is the entire procedure.