SKU:

006R01458-Y

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

006R01458

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

15,000 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

The machine is asking for yellow, but our pages looked fine yesterday. Did this cartridge really run out that suddenly?

It almost certainly did not — yellow is the one color you cannot watch fading. A weakening cyan or magenta announces itself in washed-out blues and reds, but yellow laid on white paper is close to invisible, so output keeps looking acceptable while this cartridge quietly drains. The 006R01458 is also a supporting ingredient rather than a headline color: it works inside greens, oranges, golds and warm skin tones, which means other colors start drifting before a page ever looks "un-yellow". By the time the WorkCentre flags the level, the cartridge has usually been low for some time. Printing the machine's color test page settles it — compare the yellow patch against the other three; a pale or streaked patch next to three solid ones confirms the cartridge, not the sensor, is telling the truth.

Our greens have turned bluish and the oranges look red. Could a yellow cartridge cause that?

Yes — that pair of symptoms is the classic yellow signature. Green is built from cyan plus yellow, so when yellow delivery weakens, every green in a chart or logo slides toward blue. Orange is magenta plus yellow, so oranges and warm reds lose their warmth and print harder and cooler than the file shows. Photographs give it away too: faces go slightly waxy and pale because the warm undertone has dropped out. If the same shift appears on the machine's own test page — away from any computer or driver — the cause sits inside the printer, and a fresh 006R01458 in the yellow position restores the balance without touching the other three cartridges.

This WorkCentre is the only color machine in our office. How long should one cartridge last us?

The rating is 15,000 pages, measured at the standard 5% coverage, and on a shared 7120- or 7220-series machine the honest translation is in months. An office running a few hundred color pages a month can see a single 006R01458 last well over a year; a busier floor putting 1,500 color pages a month through the machine will work through it in under a year. Yellow consumption follows color work only — the black-and-white copying and printing that make up most of a shared machine's day does not touch it. Watch the supplies percentage rather than the calendar, and treat the first low warning as the moment to order, because a color queue in a one-machine office has no second printer to fall back on.

What does a page cost with the 006R01458?

Divide the price by the rating: $92.40 for a cartridge rated at 15,000 pages works out to roughly 0.62 cents per rated page. That figure covers this one color position only — it is a single yellow cartridge, bought once, with no contract, no per-click billing and no minimum volume attached to it. For an office weighing a managed-print quote against buying its own supplies, that six-tenths-of-a-cent number is the yellow share of every color page the machine produces at standard coverage.

Which WorkCentre models take this cartridge?

Two closely related generations of Xerox's small-workgroup color machines. The earlier pair is the WorkCentre 7120 and the WorkCentre 7125. The later line is built around the WorkCentre 7220 and the WorkCentre 7225, including the ConnectKey "i" builds of the same engines — the WorkCentre 7220i, the WorkCentre 7225i and the WorkCentre WC7220TI. The letter after the model number describes the software and controller package, not a different toner bay: all seven draw from the same yellow cartridge. Before ordering, the simplest check is the code printed on the cartridge you pull out — if it reads 006R01458, this is its yellow replacement.

Should we keep a spare yellow on the shelf, and what cover does it carry?

For this color, a spare makes unusual sense: because yellow gives almost no visible warning on the page, the machine's low message can land in the middle of a color deadline with nobody having seen it coming. Keep the spare sealed, upright and out of direct sunlight, and rotate it in when the fitted cartridge is replaced so stock never ages in the cupboard. The cartridge is backed by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, so a unit that arrives damaged or fails early is exchanged or refunded rather than written off. Orders ship from whichever of our warehouses — Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California — is closest to you, with full delivery detail on the shipping & returns page, and our support team answers cartridge questions Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST. The rest of the range for these machines sits in the Xerox section of the catalogue.

About This Xerox 006R01458 Yellow Toner Cartridge

A single compatible yellow cartridge for Xerox's compact color workgroup machines — the WorkCentre 7120, 7125, 7220 and 7225 families — sold under part number 006R01458. It is rated at 15,000 pages and priced at $92.40, about 0.62 cents per rated page. Yellow is the quiet partner in almost every warm color these machines print, from greens and oranges to the undertone in a face, which is why its level is worth watching on the supplies screen rather than on the page. A 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns cover it.