SKU:

CS-Xerox-C600-Y

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R03898

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

Color: 6000

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Faces in our printed photos have gone waxy and pink-gray. Can a toner cartridge cause that?

Yes — and the cartridge is yellow. Skin is one of the most demanding colors a printer mixes: a living complexion is built on a generous bed of yellow warmed and shaded by the other toners. Drain the yellow and the balance tips cool — faces go waxy, then rose-gray, then faintly seasick, while gold hair and amber jewelry lose their glow in the same pass. Photographs accuse a fading yellow cartridge earlier than charts or text ever will, because the eye knows exactly what a face is supposed to look like.

Why did our palest yellows — lemons, highlights, cream backgrounds — disappear first?

Because pale colors are small doses, and small doses fall below visibility first. A lemon or a cream backdrop might be laid down at a fraction of full strength; when the supply weakens, the printer's compensation stretches what remains toward the strong colors, and those delicate tints are the earliest casualties — they simply print as white. Saturated yellows, a school bus or a warning sign, hang on longer. A vanishing highlight is not a subtle symptom; for yellow, it is the first one.

Could this be a calibration or driver setting instead of an empty cartridge?

The pattern tells them apart. A settings change moves every color at once, overnight. A depleting cartridge moves only the colors that depend on it, gradually: greens slide toward blue, oranges toward red, warm neutrals go cool — while pure cyan, pure magenta and black print exactly as they always did. If the shift is selective and it crept in over weeks, you are looking at a supply running dry, not a configuration that changed. On this machine family, that supply is the yellow 106R03898.

What does 6,000 rated pages mean for work that is mostly photographs?

Read it as a comparison figure, not a promise. The rating is struck at roughly 5% coverage; a photograph can cover nearly the whole sheet, and its faces, sunsets and warm interiors all spend yellow generously. At $57.89 this cartridge runs about 0.96 cents per rated page, but under a photo-heavy workload the real count will land below 6,000 because every page drinks deeper than the test page did. Judge the replacement by whether warmth and color come back true; keep the rating for fair comparisons between cartridges.

The spent cartridge reads 106R03898. Do I need anything else to reorder?

Nothing else at all. That code is the complete specification — color, yield class and machine family compressed into one string — and it appears in this listing's title so the match takes a glance. The one cartridge serves the Versalink C600 and the Versalink C605 alike, so the unit you removed and the unit on this page are counterparts. No measuring the old cartridge, no shade names to decode, no model-year puzzles to solve.

And if the replacement arrives damaged, or the warmth never returns?

Send it back on us. Coverage lasts a full year — a one-year warranty with free returns running the entire year, covering transit damage, a faulty unit, or color that refuses to correct. Orders leave our warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA; the full policy is published on our shipping and returns page for anyone who wants it in writing. Rather discuss it first? Support is available Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This 106R03898 Yellow Toner Cartridge

This listing carries a single Clever Supplies compatible yellow cartridge replacing the Xerox 106R03898 — 6,000 rated pages at $57.89, around 0.96 cents per rated page. Yellow is the warmth cartridge: it is what makes skin look alive, gold look like metal and a sunset look like evening rather than noon. Losing it does not remove a color from the page; it removes the heat from all of them — greens cool toward blue, oranges harden toward red, faces go gray at the edges. The correction is deliberately unglamorous: the code on the cartridge you pulled out is the code in the title above, and matching those two is the whole job.