SKU:

006R01178

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

006R01178

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

16,000 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is the yellow cartridge so hard to judge by eye?

Because yellow toner on white paper is close to invisible. A page can be badly short of yellow and still look almost normal at a glance, which makes the 006R01178 the cartridge operators misread most often: nobody notices a pale yellow patch the way they notice fading black text or a washed-out blue. The dependable check is the machine's supplies gauge, backed up by a test page carrying a solid yellow block — if that block prints faint, streaked or patchy, the cartridge is at the end of its load whatever the rest of the page suggests.

What do failing greens and oranges have to do with yellow?

Almost everything. Green is cyan printed over yellow and orange is magenta over yellow, so a yellow bay running dry distorts colours that contain no obvious yellow at all: greens slide toward blue, oranges harden toward red, warm greys turn cold and photographs lose their sunlight. When a machine's output drifts that way while blues and reds still look plausible on their own, the 006R01178 is the first suspect — the mixture has lost one of its three ingredients, and it is the one nobody thinks to check.

Does yellow get used on pages that show no yellow at all?

Yes — constantly. Very few colours on a printed page are a single toner: leaf green, peach, tan, warm brown and most photographic tones are recipes that include yellow even when the finished colour looks nothing like it. A colour page with no visible yellow in it can still draw meaningfully on this cartridge, which is why the 006R01178 empties at a pace that surprises people who rarely print anything yellow. Its 16,000-page rating is measured the standard way, at 5% coverage of the yellow layer, and mixed-colour office work will land somewhere under that figure.

What does the yellow layer cost per printed page?

On this listing's own arithmetic, about 0.60 cents per page: the $96.02 price spread over the rated 16,000 pages. That is the yellow layer only, from a cartridge bought outright — no click charge, lease bundle or service contract wrapped around it. On copiers of this age, where the calculation is whether the machine stays worth feeding at all, a colour component costing six-tenths of a cent per rated page is what keeps the answer yes.

Which models does the 006R01178 fit?

It belongs to the shared CopyCentre and WorkCentre colour platform in this listing: the CopyCentre C2128, CopyCentre C2636 and CopyCentre C3545, the WorkCentre 7328, WorkCentre 7335, WorkCentre 7345 and WorkCentre 7346, and the WorkCentre Pro C2128 and WorkCentre Pro C2636. Match the code on the cartridge coming out of the machine: if it reads 006R01178, this is its yellow replacement.

How should a spare yellow cartridge be kept — and what cover does it carry?

Kept sealed in its box, flat and indoors away from heat and direct light, a spare 006R01178 waits patiently — toner does not dry out the way ink does, so a shelf spare bought ahead is insurance rather than waste. Every cartridge carries a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, so a unit that arrives faulty or underperforms is replaced or refunded. Orders ship from whichever of our four US warehouses — Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California — is nearest to you, under the terms on our shipping & returns page; support is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the rest of this platform's range is in our Xerox catalogue.

About This Xerox 006R01178 Yellow Cartridge

One compatible Xerox 006R01178 yellow toner cartridge, rated at 16,000 pages and priced at $96.02 — roughly 0.60 cents per rated page. It supplies the least visible and most underestimated layer on the CopyCentre C2128, C2636 and C3545, the WorkCentre 7328, 7335, 7345 and 7346, and the WorkCentre Pro C2128 and C2636: the ingredient inside every green, orange and warm tone these workgroup machines print, in a full-yield unit sized for their shared colour platform. Backed by our 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns.