Frequently Asked Questions

Everyone sharing our 6280DN says the colors look "off," yet black text is perfect — can one cartridge explain that?

Yes, and on a shared machine it usually does. The Phaser 6280DN prints everybody's color mixes from the same four cartridges. When the yellow one fades, every user's greens and oranges shift together — slides from one desk, charts from another — while text stays crisp because black works alone. A whole office noticing the same cold cast at the same time is not five separate problems; it is one yellow cartridge at the end of its life.

The low-yellow warning has just appeared on a shared printer — how urgent is it?

It is a heads-up, not a stop order: when the warning first shows, a useful slice of this cartridge's 5,900-page rating is still in hand, and prints will keep coming out correctly for a while. The catch with a workgroup machine is that nobody sees the whole volume — five people's "just a few pages" adds up fast, and the remainder disappears sooner than anyone estimates. The sensible routine is to order the replacement the day the warning appears, then swap it in when the prints themselves start to shift.

Can I check the cartridge levels from my desk instead of walking to the printer?

Yes. The 6280DN sits on your network, and its built-in web page — open the printer's IP address in any browser — reports the supply status of each cartridge. That saves the trip down the hall and the test page: if the web readout shows yellow low and a colleague's last chart came out with blue-looking grass, you have your answer from two directions without printing anything.

The name says "Cartridges" — what actually arrives?

A single yellow cartridge. The plural wording is how the range is catalogued; this listing ships one sealed 106R01394, the high-yield yellow unit for this machine, at $55.94. One unit is what a shared printer needs — the colors run out one at a time, each on its own schedule, and yellow is simply the one whose turn has come.

Why does yellow seem to run down first on a workgroup machine?

Because team printing is chart-and-highlight printing. The green in a spreadsheet graph is half yellow; so is the orange in a callout box, the gold in the logo on a title slide, and the warm gray behind a report table. Nobody on the team prints yellow on purpose, yet everybody spends it a little at a time, all day. The color nobody chooses is often the first to go — and the 106R01394's high-yield rating of up to 5,900 pages is built to stretch exactly that gap.

What cover does a shared office get with it?

The same as every buyer: a 1-year warranty on the cartridge and free returns for a full year, with the policy in full on our shipping and returns page. Orders are dispatched from our warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and support is staffed Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if the office ever needs it.

About This Xerox Phaser 6280DN Yellow Toner Cartridge (106R01394)

Built for the shared-printer office: a single compatible high-yield yellow cartridge, part number 106R01394 at $55.94, rated at up to 5,900 pages — about 0.95 cents a page — for the 6280DN and the base Phaser 6280 it shares its cartridge bay with. On a workgroup machine, yellow is spent by everyone and watched by no one; a long-life unit and a same-day reorder habit keep the team's colors true. The rest of the cartridges for this printer are on our Xerox page.