Frequently Asked Questions

Why does one tabloid poster eat more yellow than a stack of letter pages?

Area. A tabloid sheet carries roughly twice the printable surface of a letter page, and posters spend that surface on exactly the things yellow feeds: full backgrounds, big warm color fields, highlight panels. The cartridge's 18,000-page rating is built on standard letter pages at modest coverage — a full-bleed tabloid poster can spend ten or twenty times the yellow of an ordinary office page. On a 7400DT doing display work, yellow is not consumed by the page count; it is consumed by the square foot.

What does 18,000 pages honestly mean in large-format terms?

Think of it as a budget of coverage rather than a pile of sheets. Light tabloid work — drawings with color callouts, charts with tinted bands — draws the budget down gently and the cartridge lasts for months. A season of full-bleed posters draws it down in big gulps. Either way the math at $92.31 works out near 0.51 cents per standard page of yellow, and scaling that figure by your real coverage is the honest way to forecast a reorder date.

The big yellow backgrounds are coming out streaky and uneven — is the cartridge at fault?

Very likely, and here is the test: flat color fields are where a starving cartridge confesses first, because there is no text or detail to hide behind. If a solid yellow panel prints with bands or a gradient you never asked for, while small yellow elements still look passable, the supply is running dry unevenly. Print a full-page solid yellow sheet; a healthy 106R01079 lays it down flat and even, a spent one cannot.

How do the DT's extra trays change the supply picture?

The 7400DT is built for longer, less-attended runs — more paper on board means more pages between human visits. That cuts both ways: the machine can be halfway through a long poster run when the yellow quietly gives out, ruining sheets nobody was watching. On a machine configured for endurance, the spare-cartridge shelf matters as much as the trays.

Is this listing a pack, given the plural title?

It is one cartridge — the plural is listing wording, and we flag it rather than hide behind it. A single 106R01079 high-yield yellow, $92.31. The machine swaps colors individually, so one is a complete purchase: the old yellow comes out, this one goes in, the other three colors stay where they were.

What stands behind the purchase?

A 1-year warranty plus free returns for a full year, spelled out on our shipping & returns page. Orders ship from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the rest of this platform's supplies sit on the Xerox supplies page.

About This Yellow Cartridge for the Phaser 7400DT

Written for the tray-loaded, large-format build — the Phaser 7400DT — this listing is a single compatible 106R01079 yellow cartridge at $92.31, rated up to 18,000 standard pages. The same cartridge serves the wider family: the Phaser 7400, Phaser 7400DFX, Phaser 7400DN and Phaser 7400DX, with the 7400N and 7400DXF besides. It is pitched at owners whose yellow disappears by the square foot — poster backgrounds, display panels, full-color tabloid runs — and who need the reorder to be one exact number, not a research project.