Xerox
Compatible Xerox C600 (106R03897) Toner Cartridge Magenta
- Page Yield:
- Color: 6000
- Availability:
- In Stock
- Shipping:
- Calculated at Checkout
- Page Yield:
- Color: 6000
- Availability:
- In Stock
- Shipping:
- Calculated at Checkout
- Compatible Printers
- Specifications
- SKU:
- CS-Xerox-C600-VERSALINK-C600-M
- Printer Brand:
- Xerox
- OEM Number:
- 106R03897
- Ink Color:
- Magenta
- Page Yield:
- Color: 6000
- Printer Type:
- Laser Cartridge
- Condition:
- New Compatible
- Description
- Reviews


Produce sharp, high-definition prints with the Xerox C600 toner cartridge series, which includes 106R03899 Black, 106R03896 Cyan, 106R03897 Magenta, and 106R03898 Yellow. These genuine Xerox cartridges deliver rich black text and vibrant, true-to-life colors for all your printing projects. Crafted for consistent and reliable output, the Xerox C600 ink cartridge ensures every page meets the highest standards of quality. Whether you're printing everyday office reports or full-color presentations, these cartridges provide clarity and precision on every page. Compatible with VERSALINK C600 and VERSALINK C605 printers, these toner cartridges are designed for seamless integration and easy installation. Their advanced design helps minimize maintenance and supports uninterrupted productivity in demanding work environments. Count on the Xerox C600 toner cartridge to keep your documents looking professional and your workflows efficient. Ideal for high-volume printing, these cartridges offer the performance, durability, and exceptional color accuracy your business needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our brand red keeps printing orange, and it gets worse every week. What is going on?
Your printer does not own a red toner. Red is mixed on the page from two cartridges — magenta and yellow laid down together in roughly equal shares. When the magenta supply starts running dry, its contribution thins out while yellow keeps printing at full strength, and the mixture tips off balance: true red slides into orange-red, then plain orange. A logo approved as red comes off the tray looking like a traffic cone. When red alone goes wrong while blues and greens hold their color, magenta is the partner giving out — and on this machine that is the 106R03897 cartridge.
Faces in our printed photos look yellow and sickly. Is that really the same cartridge?
It is, and faces are the harshest test a printer faces. Skin tones are built mostly from magenta and yellow with a whisper of cyan, and magenta is what makes skin read as alive — it supplies the pink in cheeks, lips and knuckles. Starve the mix of magenta and yellow works alone: complexions turn sallow, people look jaundiced, and a healthy team starts resembling a flu ward. Nobody can say exactly which chart color is off by a shade, but everybody knows a face that looks wrong. When the faces go first, suspect magenta.
How can violet headings turning plain blue also be magenta's fault?
Because magenta works two partnerships, and violet is the other one. Purple and violet tones are cyan plus magenta; take magenta out of that mix and cyan prints by itself, which is simply blue. So a single shortage shows up at two ends of the color wheel at once — reds lose their partner and slide orange, violets lose theirs and collapse to blue. If your document's reds and purples are both wrong in opposite directions while everything else survives, one cartridge explains the whole crime scene.
The magenta bar on the supplies page prints pale pink, and the cartridge I removed is stamped 106R03897. Is this its replacement?
Both clues point the same way. Print the supplies or demo page from the machine's menu and look at the solid bar each cartridge lays down entirely on its own: a healthy magenta bar is deep and saturated, while a spent one comes out pale pink, washed and streaky — exactly what you are seeing. And the stamp settles the order: 106R03897 names this exact magenta unit — its color, its capacity class, its printer family — and you will find the identical code carried in the title of this listing. It covers both the Versalink C600 on your desk and the Versalink C605 beside it, so matching stamp to title is all the checking there is.
How far does a 6,000-page rating stretch in a real office?
The figure is measured at about 5% page coverage — a text letter carrying a logo. At $48.46, that comes to roughly 0.81 cents for each rated page. Your real total will follow your red content, because red work is magenta work: menus, property flyers, retail graphics and presentation title slides all burn through magenta far faster than the test page does, while a memo-driven office sips it. Expect a red-heavy workplace to land under 6,000 pages and a text-first one to have a chance of passing it. Use the rating to compare cartridges fairly; use your own coverage to predict how long one will actually last you.
What if the new cartridge goes in and our reds are still wrong?
Then the cartridge comes back to us at no cost. It carries a one-year warranty and free returns across that entire year, so a unit that shows up damaged — or one that leaves your reds orange anyway — can go straight back without costing you a cent. We ship from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, and every detail of the policy lives on our shipping and returns page. Prefer to walk through the symptoms with a person first? Support answers Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This 106R03897 Magenta Toner Cartridge
A single Clever Supplies compatible magenta cartridge that replaces the Xerox 106R03897 — a 6,000-page unit priced at $48.46, which works out to about 0.81 cents a page at the rated coverage. Magenta is the warmth cartridge: it is half of every red your printer makes, the pink inside every face, and half of every violet. When its supply fades, the failure announces itself in the colors people judge hardest — reds sliding orange, complexions going sallow, violets flattening into blue. The remedy could not be shorter: the code stamped on the cartridge you pulled out is the code in the title above — order it, seat it, print.

