SKU:

106R02601-Y

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R02601

Ink Color:

Yellow

Page Yield:

4,500 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does yellow actually show up in a document that contains no yellow objects at all?

Almost everywhere colour is mixed rather than printed pure. Green is built from yellow plus cyan, orange is yellow warmed with magenta, and gold, cream and sand tones are yellow doing nearly all the work. Even a blue pie chart can lean on yellow in its secondary slices and highlights. So the 106R02601 is spent by jobs a reader would describe as green, orange or photographic, not only by pages with a yellow banner on them.

If this is the first colour to empty, do greens and oranges go wrong in the same way?

No, and that split is a useful clue. Without enough yellow, greens lose their warm half and slide toward a colder, bluer finish, while oranges flatten into red and lose their brightness. Photographs show it in another place again: sunlight, blonde hair and pale wood turn greyish and lifeless. When two unrelated colour families drift in opposite directions at once, yellow is very often the common cause behind both.

Which printer does the 106R02601 fit?

It belongs to one model, the Phaser 7100, and this listing is that machine's yellow unit on its own. Read the supply number printed on the cartridge you take out before you reorder: the four colours sit in separate bays, look very similar in the hand, and 106R02601 identifies the yellow one specifically.

How do you test the yellow supply on its own when yellow on white paper is so hard to see?

Do not judge it from a pale yellow patch, which can look faint even when the supply is healthy. Instead print something that depends on yellow heavily: a solid green block, an orange heading, or a warm photograph you know well. If the green prints blue-leaning and the orange prints red-leaning while cyan-heavy and magenta-heavy areas still look right, the test has isolated the problem to the yellow bay rather than to the printer as a whole.

Should you judge how much life is left by looking at printed pages?

With this colour, printed output is a late and unreliable gauge. Yellow is the lightest toner in the set, so a page can keep looking acceptable long after the level has fallen, then change quickly once mixed colours run short of it. Going by the printer's own level reading and low-supply warning is more dependable here than waiting for a visible defect, and ordering the replacement at the warning leaves you a buffer before greens and oranges start to suffer.

What cover and delivery arrangements come with this cartridge?

You get a one-year warranty, with free returns for a full year as well; the complete terms are on our shipping and returns page. Parcels are dispatched from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, help is on hand Mon–Fri, 9 AM – 5 PM CST, and the broader line-up for the brand is gathered on our Xerox toner page.

About This 106R02601 Yellow Cartridge

Sold singly for $76.92 and rated at up to 4,500 pages, the 106R02601 works out at roughly 1.71 cents per page at the rated coverage — the cost of the warm half of the colour palette in this machine. Treat it as a warning-driven purchase rather than an eyesight-driven one: yellow gives its clearest signals in other colours, greens turning cold and oranges turning dull, so replacing this one cartridge at the first warning restores both families in a single swap and leaves the other three bays to finish the pages still left in them.