Frequently Asked Questions

Which colors give away a dying yellow cartridge first?

The mixed ones. Greens slide toward blue, oranges slide toward red, and wood, gold and skin tones lose their warmth — while a pure blue heading and plain black text can look completely normal on the very same page. That split is what makes a fading yellow cartridge so confusing: half the sheet looks fine. Print something with grass, an orange heading or a face in it, and the fault shows itself at once.

Can anyone in the office check the yellow level over the network?

Yes. The Phaser 6280N is a networked machine, and its built-in web page reports the supply status of every cartridge to anyone who opens the printer's address in a browser. That makes a ten-second check possible before a big color job is sent: if yellow reads low and a brochure run is on the calendar, the time to swap is before the run, not during it.

Is this a multi-pack or a single cartridge?

A single cartridge. This listing is one sealed 106R01394 — the high-yield yellow unit — at $55.94. The range is catalogued under plural wording, but nothing about this box is a bundle: when the printer asks for yellow, one cartridge is the complete fix, and the other colors stay in the machine to live out their own lives.

Why is this the high-yield version, and what does that change day to day?

High yield is the long-life grade of this cartridge: the 106R01394 is rated at up to 5,900 pages at the standard 5% coverage, and across that life the $55.94 price works out to roughly 0.95 cents per page. Day to day, the difference is interruption — a longer stretch between swaps, fewer print runs caught mid-fade, and a reorder that can be planned from the supplies page instead of discovered from a spoiled page.

We are about to print 200 color flyers — swap the fading yellow now, or after the run?

Now. A tiring cartridge does not fade evenly across a long run: it drifts a little more with every sheet, so flyer 150 comes out colder than flyer 1 — a mismatch nobody notices until the stack is sitting side by side on a table. Start the batch on the fresh cartridge and the whole stack matches from first sheet to last. The old unit has given you its warning; a deadline run is the wrong place to spend what is left of it.

How am I covered, and who do I call if there is a problem?

The cartridge comes with a 1-year warranty, and returns are free for a full year if it is not right for your machine — our shipping and returns page carries the complete terms. We ship from warehouses in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and a real support team is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

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

This is the yellow cartridge for the networked Phaser 6280 family, sold as a single high-yield unit under part number 106R01394 at $55.94 and rated at up to 5,900 pages. It suits offices whose color work has to match from the first copy to the last — flyers, handouts, presentation decks — and who would rather plan a swap from the supplies readout than spot cold-looking greens in a finished stack. Browse the rest of the range on our Xerox page.