SKU:

Dell-331-0779

Printer Brand:

Dell

OEM Number:

331-0779

Ink Color:

High Yield Yellow

Page Yield:

1,400 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is this yellow cartridge identified by the number 331-0779?

Because 331-0779 is Dell's own supply number for the high-yield yellow cartridge in this printer family, and the number is the one identifier that cannot be confused. Color names repeat across dozens of Dell models, but 331-0779 points to exactly one cartridge: a yellow toner rated at 1,400 pages. If the label on your spent cartridge or your reorder list carries that number, this is the cartridge it refers to.

What does yellow toner actually do in these printers?

More than most people expect. Yellow is half of every green, the base of every warm skin tone and the ingredient that keeps oranges, golds and warm reds from sliding toward brown. The 331-0779 supplies that yellow position, so its condition quietly decides whether a color print looks warm and natural or cold and slightly off — even on pages where no obvious yellow object appears.

What does one page cost with the 331-0779?

The arithmetic is simple: $25.24 divided by the 1,400-page rating works out to roughly 1.8 cents per page for the yellow position. Stated plainly, that is not a cheap per-page figure — compact desktop color printers with small cartridges never deliver bargain per-page costs. What you get for $25.24 is the correctly numbered high-yield yellow supply in a single modest purchase, which fits the light color workload these machines were designed for.

How long should 1,400 pages of yellow last?

That depends entirely on what you print. An office producing a few hundred pages a month with light color — a logo here, a chart there — can stretch one 331-0779 across many months, because yellow is only consumed where color actually lands. Full-page photos and graphics-heavy flyers are the opposite: they draw yellow on nearly every sheet and can burn through the rating far faster than the page count suggests.

Our greens have turned blue and faces look cold. Is yellow the problem?

Very likely, yes. Green is cyan plus yellow, so when the yellow cartridge runs dry the same print shifts toward blue; warm tones lose their warmth for the same reason, while black text stays crisp and innocent-looking. Before blaming the printer, print a test page with a solid yellow block — pale, streaky or missing yellow confirms the 331-0779 is spent.

What guarantee stands behind this cartridge?

Every compatible cartridge we sell, this 331-0779 included, is covered by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns — the full terms are on our shipping & returns page. Orders leave from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, and our support team answers Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.

About This Dell 331-0779 Yellow Cartridge

The compatible Dell 331-0779 is the high-yield yellow toner cartridge for this family of Dell color laser printers, rated at 1,400 pages and sold on its own at $25.24 — about 1.8 cents per page at the rated yield. It is a compatible cartridge, not a Dell original, and it sits in our wider Dell toner range backed by a 1-year warranty with 1-year free returns. For a compact Dell color laser doing everyday office color, it is the right numbered yellow supply at a small one-time price.

Related options in this range include the black cartridge, the cyan cartridge, the magenta cartridge and the 4-color set. Owners of the Color Laser 1355cnw, Color Laser 1755nf, Color Laser 1755nfw, Color Laser C1760nw, Color Laser C1765nf, Color Laser 1250c, Color Laser 1350cnw and Color Laser 1355cn all run on this same cartridge.