SKU:

106R02600-M

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R02600

Ink Color:

Magenta

Page Yield:

4,500 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do faces take on a green tint and reds collapse toward orange as magenta fades?

Magenta is the balancing color in skin, brick, wine and warm wood, and red cannot exist without it — red on paper is magenta laid down with yellow. As the 106R02600 weakens, that balance goes first: red headings turn rusty, purple headings slide toward plain blue, photographs lose their warmth and faces pick up an unflattering green cast, even though black lettering on the same sheet still looks perfectly crisp.

Can you replace just the magenta bay and leave the other cartridges running?

Yes, and for this machine that is the sensible way to buy. Each color is a separate unit with its own life, so there is no reason to retire cartridges that still have useful pages in them simply because magenta reached the end first. Pull the finished unit, confirm 106R02600 on its label, seat the new magenta in that same bay, and let the remaining colors finish what is left in them.

Does a low-magenta warning spoil a run of plain black-and-white pages?

Black text is the work least disturbed by a fading magenta supply, because a memo, invoice or letter leans almost entirely on black. Color work is a different story if you press on regardless: every further sheet will drift a little further from the reds and purples you expected. Treat the warning as your cue to have the replacement ready before the next brochure, chart or photo job, rather than discovering the shortage in the middle of it.

Which printer does the 106R02600 fit?

It is made for one model, the Phaser 7100, and this page sells that magenta cartridge on its own as a single unit. Because the four color cartridges for this printer sit side by side and look much alike, read the supply number on the unit you removed before ordering — 106R02600 is the magenta one, and that number is the check that matters.

Why do brochures and flyers burn through the 4,500-page rating so much faster than memos?

The rating rests on light, average coverage spread across a page. A memo might spend magenta only on a small logo, while a sales flyer can cover half the sheet with a deep red background, product photographs and purple price blocks — several times the toner on every single copy. A workplace printing that kind of material should expect a shorter real-world life from the 106R02600 than an office printing mostly correspondence, even though both are using exactly the same cartridge.

What protection and delivery terms come with this magenta cartridge?

It arrives backed by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, explained in full on our shipping and returns page. Orders leave our warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, our support team is available Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the rest of the range for this brand sits on our Xerox toner page.

About This 106R02600 Magenta Cartridge

Priced at $76.92 and rated for up to 4,500 pages, this single compatible magenta cartridge works out to roughly 1.71 cents per page at the rated coverage. Its job inside the Phaser 7100 is the warm half of the color palette: the reds in a logo, the purples in a presentation, the healthy color in a printed face. When those start to look wrong while the text still looks right, this is usually the cartridge behind it.

It is a practical pick for offices whose color work arrives in bursts — a property flyer here, a retail sign there, a proposal with full-color pages in between — and who would rather replace one spent color at a time than swap a whole set on a schedule. Order the 106R02600 as the magenta bay runs down, keep it in its packaging until the swap, and the printer goes back to producing the warm colors those jobs were designed with.