SKU:

Xerox-106R01280

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R01280

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

1,900 pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Our logo's green leaves have turned blue, yet nothing on the page looks like it is missing yellow. How can one cartridge do that?

Because green is not a toner — the printer builds it out of cyan and yellow laid down together. While the 106R01280 is healthy, the yellow half holds the cyan in check and the mix reads as green. As the yellow runs out, the cyan prints alone and every green in your documents — leaves, landscape photos, the green column in a chart — slides quietly into blue. Yellow itself is almost invisible on white paper, so the failure never announces itself in yellow; it testifies through the colors yellow was holding up. When greens go blue and oranges go red at the same moment, the silent partner in both mixtures is gone.

Why can't I just look at a printout and see that the yellow is empty?

Yellow is the faintest thing a laser printer puts on white paper — a patch of pure yellow at full strength is still barely a tint to the naked eye, and at half strength it looks like nothing at all. Nobody ever held up a page and said "the yellow looks pale"; they say the page looks cold, or the photo looks wrong, without knowing why. That is what makes this cartridge the last one anybody suspects. Your eyes are genuinely the wrong instrument for it — the level indicator and the mixed colors are the evidence.

Is there a print test that shows yellow honestly?

Yes: print something green on purpose. A solid green block is half yellow by construction, so it cannot hide a weak cartridge — if the block comes out blue or teal, the yellow is spent no matter what the gauge claims. The printer's own demo page works the same way if you read it by mixture instead of by patch: find the green sample rather than squinting at the yellow one. Thirty seconds and one sheet, and you know whether to order the 106R01280 or look elsewhere for your problem.

How does a 1,900-page rating behave for yellow specifically?

The rating is counted at roughly 5% coverage and works out to about 1.7 cents per rated page at $31.86. Yellow's real consumption hides inside other colors: every green field, every warm photograph and every orange headline spends it, even in documents nobody would call "yellow documents." A design-heavy month can draw this cartridge down far faster than the text pages suggest, while a correspondence office may barely touch it between black refills. Judge the 1,900 as the comparison yardstick; judge your own drain by how much green and warmth your pages carry.

This listing is named with a number instead of a printer. Am I looking at the right cartridge?

You are, if the number matches. 106R01280 is this cartridge's full identity — color, yield class and machine family compressed into one code — which is why the listing leads with it rather than a printer name. The same unit serves the Phaser 6130 and the Phaser 6130N, so read the code off the cartridge you just pulled out; when it reads 106R01280, the search is over.

What if the replacement arrives damaged, or my greens still print blue after I fit it?

Then it is our problem, not yours. The cartridge is covered by a one-year warranty and returns are free for the whole year — a leaking unit, a damaged unit, or one that fails to bring your greens back all qualify. Orders ship from our warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, and the complete terms are on our shipping and returns page. A person can help Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, if the print test leaves you in doubt.

About This 106R01280 Yellow Toner Cartridge

This Clever Supplies compatible yellow cartridge replaces the Xerox 106R01280 in the Phaser 6130 family — one single cartridge, rated at 1,900 pages and priced at $31.86, roughly 1.7 cents per rated page. Yellow is the cartridge nobody sees working and everybody misses: it is half of every green, the warmth in every photograph, and the reason oranges are orange instead of red. Because it fades without ever printing a visibly bad yellow page, it tends to be diagnosed last and blamed on everything else first. Order it by the code on your empty unit and what arrives is the same specification — same color, same yield class, same fit — ready to install with no tools and no settings to touch.