SKU:

106R02731-EX-HY-BK

Printer Brand:

Xerox

OEM Number:

106R02731

Ink Color:

Extra High Yield Black

Page Yield:

25,300 Pages

Printer Type:

Laser Cartridge

Condition:

New Compatible

Frequently Asked Questions

The cartridge in your hand reads 106R02731 — is this listing that same cartridge?

Yes — this is the code-first listing, written for buyers who order by the number on the spent unit's label rather than by printer name. The 106R02731 is the extra-high-yield black cartridge for its platform: one cartridge, rated at up to 25,300 pages, $45.10. If the label of the cartridge you pulled out says 106R02731, this is its direct like-for-like successor, with no pack-size or suffix arithmetic to work through.

What does "extra high yield" buy you in practice?

Time between swaps. 25,300 pages is a little over fifty reams of paper from a single cartridge, so on a moderately busy monochrome machine this is the size of cartridge that goes in and gets forgotten about for months. Spread across the rating, $45.10 works out to roughly 0.18 cents of toner per page — the rating assumes standard text coverage, so dense forms and heavy graphics will land short of it, while plain office documents usually come close.

How does a cartridge rated this large behave near the end?

The same way any toner cartridge does, just later: print that was deep black starts arriving grey, then unevenly grey, with the fade showing first in large bold headings and solid blocks rather than in body text. Because the yield is so long, the decline feels sudden — the cartridge printed perfectly for months, then fades within a few hundred pages. That is normal end-of-life behavior for a supply this size, not a printer fault.

Which printers does this single cartridge serve?

The whole monochrome platform built around it: the Phaser 3610, Phaser 3610DN, Phaser 3610N and Phaser 3610YDN printers, plus the WorkCentre 3615 multifunction machine. One code covers all of them, which is why the label number — not the badge on any one machine — is the reliable thing to order by.

What arrives in the box?

One black cartridge. The name of this listing is singular because the contents are: a single 106R02731, sealed, ready to install. If your machine eats through cartridges fast enough that a spare on the shelf makes sense, the same cartridge is sold in multi-packs elsewhere on this site — but nothing about the cartridge itself changes between them.

What protection comes with the purchase?

A 1-year warranty and free returns for a full year, under the terms on our shipping & returns page. Orders ship from warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, support runs Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST, and the rest of the range for these machines lives on the Xerox supplies page.

About This 106R02731 Extra High Yield Black Cartridge

This is the single-cartridge listing for people who buy by part number: one compatible 106R02731, $45.10, rated up to 25,300 pages of black. Its whole argument is endurance at a low per-page cost — a cartridge big enough that toner stops being a recurring errand and becomes an occasional one, sized for monochrome machines that earn their keep printing text all day.