Frequently Asked Questions
26,000 pages is a big number — how long does one of these actually last in a working office?
Longer than most people expect, because this is a departmental cartridge, not a desktop one. A machine printing 2,000 pages a month — a busy shared floor unit — takes about thirteen months to empty a single 006R01175. Even at 5,000 pages a month it holds out for over five months, and it represents roughly 52 reams of paper passing through the machine between changes. In practice the black cartridge on a color multifunction is the slow, steady drain: every report, invoice, contract and memo draws on it, while the color units only work when a page asks them to.
Our prints have gone pale and streaky down one side. Is the cartridge finished?
That pattern — density fading unevenly, one side of the page weaker than the other — is the classic signature of a cartridge running on its last toner rather than a machine fault. Toner settles and depletes unevenly, so the starved zones show first. A gentle rock of the cartridge side to side can redistribute what is left and buy a few more presentable pages, which confirms the diagnosis: if the streaks briefly improve, the 006R01175 is empty, not broken. Order its replacement at that point rather than nursing it — a departmental machine printing faint pages wastes paper as well as toner.
The machines on our floor carry three different badges. Why does one cartridge serve all of them?
Because Xerox sold the same print engine under several nameplates, and the cartridge follows the engine, not the badge. This 006R01175 is the black unit for the WorkCentre 7328, WorkCentre 7335, WorkCentre 7345 and WorkCentre 7346, and for the CopyCentre and WorkCentre Pro versions of the platform listed in the About section below. That is why the code matters more than the model name: a mixed fleet needs one black cartridge on the shelf, not three.
How does the cost per page work out on this cartridge?
Divide the price by the rating: $88.18 across 26,000 pages is about 0.34 cents a page for black. That rating is measured at roughly 5% page coverage — an ordinary text page — so a month of dense reports and full-page forms will land somewhat under 26,000, while a memo-and-email office can meet or beat it. Either way, black text is the cheapest thing this class of machine prints, and budgeting around a third of a cent a page gives a facilities manager a number that survives contact with a real month.
The first few pages after a change look light. Should I send the cartridge back?
Not yet — give it a short run first. A cartridge that has sat level in its box has toner settled in one place, and the first pages after installation commonly print a shade light while the contents distribute and the machine recalibrates its density. Run ten to twenty ordinary pages; a healthy 006R01175 evens out within that span and the output settles to full, even black. If pages are still pale after that short settling run, then something is genuinely wrong and the cartridge is covered — see the protection answer below.
What protection comes with this cartridge after it arrives?
Every cartridge is covered by a 1-year warranty, and returns stay free for that entire first year — install it, run it, and if it fails to perform the return is on us. Orders leave from whichever of our IL, PA, GA or CA warehouses puts it on a truck closest to you, and the full details live on our shipping and returns page. Questions before or after you buy are answered by a person Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This 006R01175 Black Toner Cartridge
This is a Clever Supplies compatible black cartridge built to the Xerox 006R01175 specification, sold as a single unit at $88.18 and rated at 26,000 pages — about 0.34 cents per rated page. Beyond the WorkCentre 73xx machines above, the same cartridge feeds the CopyCentre C2128, CopyCentre C2636 and CopyCentre C3545, plus the WorkCentre Pro C2128 and WorkCentre Pro C2636. Black does the heavy lifting on these machines — it carries every line of text the office produces — so this is the cartridge a department actually plans around. Match the code on your empty unit and the replacement that arrives is the same specification.
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