SKU:

106R02243-Y

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R02243

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

2,000 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is low yellow so hard to notice until prints look wrong?

Yellow is the palest toner in the set, so its absence hides in plain sight. A page can still look busy and colourful while highlights have gone chalky, lemon and gold tones have thinned out, and greens have drifted toward blue because they are mixed from yellow and cyan. Warm photographs are often the giveaway: sunlight looks cold and food looks unappetising. When those shifts appear together, the 106R02243 yellow position is the first place to look, even if no single page looks dramatically broken.

How should a spare yellow cartridge be stored until fitting day?

Keep the sealed 106R02243 flat in its box, away from radiators, sunny windowsills and damp storeroom floors, and leave the protective packaging in place until you are ready to install it. Heat and strong light are unkind to toner over long periods, while a cool, dry shelf keeps it ready for months. If you rotate stock, put the newest delivery behind the older box so the earliest purchase gets used first.

What happens if you keep printing after the yellow warning appears?

The machine will usually let you finish a short run, but every extra page leans harder on the remaining colours to compensate, and the colour drift described above gets worse rather than better. Black-only documents are unaffected and can continue as normal. For colour work, treat the first low warning as your ordering signal instead of waiting for output to stop mid-job, because a stopped colour run wastes both paper and the other toners already laid down.

Which Phaser and WorkCentre models use this yellow cartridge?

The 106R02243 is made for the Phaser 6600, Phaser 6600dn, Phaser 6600n and Phaser 6600ydn, together with the WorkCentre 6605 and WorkCentre 6605dn. All six share one cartridge design, so the network and duplex letters in the model name do not affect your choice.

What should you check on the first pages after fitting it?

Print a document you know well, ideally one with a yellow heading, a green graphic and a photograph. Yellows should read clean rather than mustard-brown, greens should sit on the green side of teal, and skin and wood tones should feel warm again. Give the new 106R02243 two or three pages to settle before judging, then compare against the last good copy you kept. If warmth has returned across all three elements, the swap has done its job and no other colour needs attention.

What warranty, returns and delivery cover does this order include?

Your purchase carries a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, and the full wording lives on our shipping and returns page. Orders are picked from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, so dispatch starts from whichever site serves your address fastest, and our team answers questions Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST. The rest of the range sits on our Xerox toner page.

About This 106R02243 Yellow Cartridge

Think of this purchase as colour insurance for the tones nobody notices until they vanish. This single compatible yellow cartridge costs $43.32 and is rated for up to 2,000 pages, which works out to roughly 2.17 cents per page for the yellow layer of your colour output. Order the 106R02243 when greens cool down and highlights lose their warmth, keep a spare on a cool shelf if colour deadlines matter to you, and one straightforward swap brings back the sunny end of the spectrum your documents were designed with.