Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the cyan cartridge seem to empty first, even though we hardly ever print a solid blue page?
Because solid blue pages are not where cyan gets spent. Look at an ordinary week of office printing: the blue bar in a sales chart, the header band on a letterhead, the green in a spreadsheet where a column is marked complete, the gray shading behind a table — every one of those is partly or mostly cyan. Greens are cyan joined with yellow, purples are cyan joined with magenta, and even neutral grays on a color machine are balanced with a little cyan to keep them from turning warm. Add photographs, where skies, water and shadows are cyan-heavy by nature, and a cartridge like the 113R00723 can be doing quiet work on nine pages out of ten while looking untouched. It is usually the hardest-working color in the machine, not the fastest-leaking one.
Does a 6,000-page high-yield cartridge make sense if we only print color jobs now and then?
Yes — in fact, occasional color printing is where the maths is kindest. One 113R00723 costs $64.27 and is rated at 6,000 pages, which works out to about 1.07 cents per rated page, and the rating is what lets a light-use office go a very long time between swaps instead of opening the printer every few months. The honest way to judge it is not pages per week but cost per color page over the cartridge's whole life: a smaller fill would need replacing sooner and would interrupt the same jobs this single unit simply finishes. If your color work arrives in bursts — a proposal run here, a set of handouts there — the high yield means the spare you need is already inside the machine.
Blue areas have started printing with a pale band down one side. Is the cartridge finished?
An uneven pale band that only shows inside blue, teal and green areas — while black text on the same page stays crisp — is the classic late-life signature of a cyan cartridge running dry on one side. As a quick check, take the cartridge out and rock it gently from side to side a few times to level the toner that remains, then reprint the same page. If the band fills in, you have bought yourself a short reprieve, but treat it as a warning rather than a cure: the toner that was redistributed is all there is. When the band returns within a handful of pages, or the whole blue field looks washed out from edge to edge, the 113R00723 is at the end of its useful life and a replacement is the fix — cleaning the printer will not put cyan back.
How long can I keep a spare cartridge on the shelf before fitting it?
A high-yield cartridge can spend a long time as your spare precisely because it also spends a long time in the machine, so shelf habits matter. Keep the 113R00723 sealed in its bag, lying flat, in a cool and dry cupboard out of direct sunlight and away from radiators or a hot storeroom wall. Stored that way, a sealed unit waits patiently until the day the fitted one fades — just do not peel the protective seal or open the bag early to "check" it, since the seal is what keeps the toner protected while it waits. When you do fit it, use the oldest spare first so stock rotates instead of ageing in place.
What does the swap itself involve — tools, settings, or downtime?
None of the three, beyond a couple of minutes with the machine idle. Open the front cover, slide the spent cyan unit out, peel the seal from the new 113R00723, and push it home in the cyan slot until it seats firmly, then close the cover and let the printer run its brief start-up cycle. There are no tools to fetch and no menu settings to adjust afterwards; the next color page you send is the confirmation. The same short routine applies whether your machine is the standard printer or a multifunction model such as the Phaser 6180MFP that also scans and copies.
What warranty, returns and delivery cover comes with this cartridge?
It arrives covered by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns: if the cartridge faults early, leaks, or simply fails to deliver clean cyan, sending it back costs you nothing and the unit is replaced or refunded. Dispatch is from whichever of our warehouses in IL, PA, GA or CA is best placed for your address, and you can talk to a person Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if a print problem needs a second opinion before you decide. The complete policy wording sits on our shipping and returns page.
About This 113R00723 High-Yield Cyan Cartridge
This listing is a single Clever Supplies compatible high-yield cyan cartridge made to replace the Xerox 113R00723. It is priced at $64.27 and rated at 6,000 pages — roughly 1.07 cents for each rated page — and it exists for one job: keeping the blue half of your color work honest. Cyan is the cartridge behind believable charts, natural photographs and greens that stay green, and because it is spent inside so many mixed colors, it is often the first color an office needs to renew even when almost nothing it prints is plainly blue.
The cartridge fits the full Phaser 6180 family: the Phaser 6180, Phaser 6180DN, Phaser 6180MFP/D and Phaser 6180MFP/N, alongside the 6180MFP named above. Order by the code printed on the cartridge you are taking out — when that code reads 113R00723, this is its like-for-like replacement, in the same color and the same high-yield class, ready to fit with the printer back in service in minutes.
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