SKU:

106R00655

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R00655

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

22,000 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is yellow the one color that can fade for weeks before anyone on the press floor notices?

Because yellow is the palest ink on the sheet and the human eye is poor at judging it on white paper. Black announces its own decline in grey text, and cyan and magenta shifts show up as obviously wrong blues and reds — but a weakening 106R00655 can lose a third of its strength while proofs still look broadly acceptable at a glance. The loss registers sideways instead: house colors lose their warmth, photographs feel cooler than the approved file, and bright highlight detail quietly washes toward cream. By the time pure yellows themselves look pale, the cartridge has usually been under-delivering for a long stretch of work.

Our greens have turned teal and the golds look muddy — could the yellow supply explain both at once?

Yes, and that pairing is the fingerprint. Green on this platform is yellow laid over cyan, so starve the yellow and green collapses toward the cyan underneath it — leaves, charts and green branding slide blue-green and cold. Gold is yellow deepened with a touch of magenta, so the same shortage drags it down into a muddy, brownish tone instead of a rich metallic warmth. When greens go cold and golds go dirty on the same job while blues and reds still hold, do not chase the colors that look wrong; check the yellow cartridge first.

Yellow lays down so lightly — how should we read its 22,000-page rating and the $177.38 price?

Lightly laid is not the same as lightly used. Yellow participates in greens, oranges, golds, warm greys and most photographic tones, so it is drawn on across nearly every color page this press produces, just in smaller visible amounts. The 106R00655 is rated for up to 22,000 pages, and at $177.38 that works out to roughly 0.81 cents of yellow per page across its life. Work dominated by vegetation, food photography, warm product shots and autumnal branding pulls on it harder than the rating's standard coverage assumes, so a shop with that job mix should expect a shorter real-world run and budget the swap by the calendar, not by the counter.

Which Phaser 7750 platform printers does this yellow cartridge fit?

It fits the four machines of the production platform: the Phaser 7750, Phaser EX7750, Phaser EX7760 and Phaser EX7800. Confirm by reading the code on the yellow unit you are taking out — it should read 106R00655 — and if the nameplate on your printer is one of those four, the match is settled.

How do you actually test a color you can barely see on a white sheet?

Do not squint at ordinary pages — print the printer's solid yellow test panel and judge that instead. A healthy panel is even and saturated edge to edge; a tired cartridge shows streaks, patchiness or a panel that looks washed compared with how dense yellow should print. Tilt the sheet under your normal proofing light: weak areas catch the light differently and stand out at an angle even when they hide face-on. As a second check, print one page carrying a strong green and a strong gold block from a job you have approved before — if the panel looks uneven and those two blocks have drifted cold and muddy together, the evidence is complete and the cartridge is done.

What warranty, returns and delivery cover comes with this cartridge?

It is backed by a 1-year warranty, with free returns for a full 1 year as well — the full terms are on our shipping and returns page. Orders are dispatched from whichever of our IL, PA, GA and CA warehouses is closest to you, and our support team is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST. The rest of the range for this platform can be browsed on our Xerox page.

About This Xerox 106R00655 Yellow Toner Cartridge

The color nobody notices until it is gone: this single compatible yellow cartridge, part number 106R00655, is priced at $177.38 and rated for up to 22,000 pages, roughly 0.81 cents per page. It serves the Phaser 7750, Phaser EX7750, Phaser EX7760 and Phaser EX7800 production printers, where yellow quietly underpins every green, orange and gold the press delivers — and where its slow fade is the easiest color fault to miss and the most misleading to diagnose. Order it by its code, test it by its solid panel, and the warm, living half of your color work stays true.