This listing is the compatible version of the Xerox 106R01477 toner cartridge in cyan for the Xerox Phaser 6140. It is rated at up to 2,600 pages per cartridge.
Coverage is straightforward: a 1-year warranty, with free returns throughout the first year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our office prints a color bulletin every week — what does a 2,600-page rating mean in that rhythm?
Work it backwards from coverage. A 2,600-page rating is counted at about 5% cyan coverage per sheet, the level of a page with a colored masthead and a few accents. A bulletin page dressed up with a full-color header, a photo and shaded boxes can easily spend three or four times that on every sheet, so the same cartridge might carry you through perhaps 700 to 900 rich pages instead. Plain weeks stretch it; festival weeks with full-bleed covers eat it. The rating is a measuring stick, not a promise — your page design does the real arithmetic.
What is this cartridge actually costing us per printed page?
At $31.41 for a unit rated at 2,600 pages, the headline figure is about 1.21 cents per page — and that is for the cyan alone, at standard coverage. Double the color on the page and you roughly double that figure; print mostly black text with a small blue logo and it falls well below it. For a small office trying to budget a color printer honestly, that sliding scale matters more than the sticker price: the cartridge is cheap, the coverage is what you are really buying.
Weekday memos print fine, but the big color run comes out greenish — why does the heavy job expose it first?
Because heavy pages ask the most of the cyan supply. A memo with a blue hyperlink needs a whisper of cyan; a page of charts, photos and colored backgrounds needs a flood of it, laid down evenly from edge to edge. A cartridge in its last stretch can still manage the whisper, so the problem hides all week — then the flood arrives, the thin spots show, and blue mixtures tip toward green. When only your most colorful work looks sick, the 106R01477 is telling you it is nearly spent.
The cartridge feels light and rattles when I shake it — does that mean it is empty?
No — toner is a fine dry powder, not a liquid, so even a brand-new cartridge feels surprisingly light and sounds hollow compared with, say, an ink tank. Weight is a poor gauge here. Trust the printer instead: the Phaser 6140 tracks its own cyan level and reports it on the panel, and the print quality itself is the second witness — clean, even blues mean there is life left whatever the unit weighs in your hand. Judge by output and the level reading, never by heft.
Can I keep a spare on the shelf for a few months before it goes in?
Yes, comfortably. An unopened cartridge stores well as long as it stays sealed in its bag, lies flat, and lives somewhere cool, dry and out of direct sunlight — a supply cupboard, not a windowsill or a spot beside a heater. Heat and damp are the enemies of toner powder, not time. Buying the spare when the warning first appears, rather than the day the machine stops, is exactly what the shelf is for.
If something is wrong with the cartridge, what am I covered by?
A 1-year warranty backs the unit, and returns are free for a full year, so a cartridge that misbehaves is our problem to put right rather than yours to absorb; the wording is set out on our shipping and returns page. Orders are dispatched from our Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California warehouses, and support is staffed Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST.
About This Phaser 6140 Cyan Cartridge (106R01477)
This listing is named for the machine it feeds: the cyan cartridge for the Phaser 6140 line, part number 106R01477, one compatible unit at $31.41 rated at up to 2,600 pages. The same cartridge serves the whole family — the Phaser 6140, Phaser 6140N and Phaser 6140DN all take the identical cyan unit, so one spare covers whichever badge your office machine wears. It is the cartridge behind every blue the printer makes, from a hyperlink to a holiday photograph. Everything else for the platform is gathered on our Xerox page.
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