Frequently Asked Questions

Everyone on our floor says the shared printer's color went "green" this week. Can I check the cyan level without walking over there?

Yes. The 6130N is a network machine, so it reports its own supplies through its embedded web page: type the printer's IP address into a browser from your desk and the status screen shows each cartridge's remaining level. If cyan is sitting near empty while magenta and yellow look healthy, you have your answer — a shared printer's single cyan cartridge serves every desk on the floor, so when it fades, everyone's blues turn green in the same week. No test pages, no trip down the hall, no guessing which of the four cartridges is responsible.

Does the network model take a different cyan cartridge than the plain 6130?

No. The "N" adds the network connection; the print engine and its cartridges are the same. Both the Phaser 6130 and the Phaser 6130N use the 106R01278 for cyan. If your office runs one of each — a common setup, one personal and one shared — a single spare on the shelf covers both machines, and you never have to remember which printer takes which box.

The listing title says "Cartridges." Am I getting a pack for the office?

You are getting one cartridge. The plural is how the catalog entry is worded; the box contains a single 106R01278 cyan unit at $31.86. For a shared machine that several people depend on, many offices deliberately order two at a time — one goes into the printer and one waits in the supply cabinet, because a network printer that is out of cyan is out of color for the whole floor, not just for one desk. But that second cartridge is a second listing, not something bundled into this one.

How long does 1,900 pages last on a printer the whole team shares?

Shorter than the same cartridge lasts on a personal machine, for simple arithmetic reasons: the rating is 1,900 pages at standard coverage, and a workgroup pours pages through at several desks' worth of volume. If six people each print twenty color pages a day, the rated life is gone in about three working weeks — and cyan-heavy work like charts and web printouts shortens it further. That is not a flaw in the cartridge; it is the math of sharing. The practical habit is to reorder when the web status page shows cyan getting low rather than when it hits empty, so the replacement is already in the cabinet.

Whoever swaps it — is it a service call, or can anyone do it?

Anyone. The change is tool-free and takes about a minute: open the front cover, pull the cyan unit straight out by its handle, slide the 106R01278 in until it seats, close the cover. The printer recalibrates itself and the next job prints normally. There is nothing to configure on the network side — the machine's address, queues and drivers are untouched, so the person nearest the printer can do it between jobs without involving IT.

If the new cartridge does not fix the color, what happens next?

It is covered for a year, and returns are free for that full year — if a unit arrives damaged or performs badly, we take it back without a restocking fight. You can read the complete wording on our shipping and returns page. Orders are dispatched from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, and our support team is reachable Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if you want to talk the symptom through before ordering.

About This Phaser 6130N Cyan Cartridge (106R01278)

This Clever Supplies compatible cartridge is the cyan supply for the networked Xerox Phaser 6130N, replacing part number 106R01278. One cartridge comes in the box, rated at 1,900 pages and priced at $31.86 — around 1.7 cents per rated page. On a shared machine, cyan carries an outsized share of the work: every hyperlink, chart and logo color from every desk on the floor is mixed from it, which is why it is normally the first supply a workgroup 6130N calls for. Its remaining level can be checked from any desk through the printer's web status page, it swaps in about a minute with no tools and no network settings touched, and the same spare also fits the non-network 6130 if your office runs both.