Frequently Asked Questions

My copies look washed out but scans on screen look fine — is toner really involved?

Yes, and the split tells you where to look. Scanning only reads the page — it uses no toner at all — but the moment the machine prints that scan as a copy, it lays down powder, and a fading magenta shows up as washed-out reds and dull, yellowish faces on every copy. Clean scans plus tired copies point at the cartridge, not the scanner, and a fresh 106R01453 is the fix.

Does copying a color photo use magenta the same way printing one does?

Exactly the same way. A copy is a print job that happens to start at the glass instead of a computer, and the machine builds reds, skin tones and warm colors from the same magenta supply. A stack of photo copies at the front desk can empty this cartridge as fast as a print run from your desk — often faster, because nobody watches the page count on walk-up copies.

The panel says magenta is low — how urgently do I need to act?

The warning arrives while usable toner remains, so you have a grace period rather than a hard stop — typically a modest run of pages, shrinking fast if those pages are color copies. Use the warning as your ordering trigger, not your panic button: place the order when it first appears, keep printing, and swap in the new 106R01453 when the output itself starts to fade.

One cartridge covers both the MFP and the MFP/N — how can I be sure?

Because the two machines share the same print engine and the same cartridge bay; the /N variant simply adds networking. Both take the single magenta unit coded 106R01453, so one spare on the shelf covers either machine — handy in an office that runs one of each and does not want two different color cartridges in the supply drawer.

Is swapping the cartridge on this machine a tools-and-manual job?

No tools at all. Open the front cover, slide the old magenta unit straight out, unpack the new one, give it a gentle side-to-side rock to level the powder inside, and slide it in until it seats. The whole change takes a couple of minutes, needs no settings reset, and the machine is ready to copy again immediately.

What warranty and return cover does it come with?

A 1-year warranty stands behind the cartridge, with free returns for a full year if it is not right for your machine; the complete wording is on our shipping and returns page. We ship from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California warehouses, and support is staffed Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if you want a hand with anything.

About This Xerox Phaser 6128MFP Magenta Toner Cartridge (106R01453)

This single compatible magenta cartridge — part number 106R01453, $33.49, rated for up to 2,500 pages at roughly 1.34 cents a page — is the color unit behind the copy glass of the Phaser 6128MFP, and it serves the Phaser 6128MFP/N identically. In an MFP its workload is doubled — every color print and every color copy draws on it — which is why its fade is usually noticed first at the copy glass. Explore the full lineup on our Xerox page.