Frequently Asked Questions
How long does one high-yield black cartridge actually last in day-to-day printing?
Longer than most people expect. This cartridge is rated at 8,000 pages, so the calendar answer depends entirely on your monthly volume: at 400 pages a month it can run well over a year, at 1,000 pages a month it lasts around eight months, and even a busy 2,000-page month still gets roughly four months out of a single unit. That long interval is the whole point of the high-yield 113R00726 — the printer gets opened for a swap a few times a year instead of every few weeks, and the cost works out to about 0.82 cents per page at the $65.41 price.
Why does the black cartridge keep dropping on a colour printer that prints mostly colour work?
Because black toner does quiet work inside colour pages. Rich blacks and neutral greys in photos, charts and logos are built from all four toners, and the black cartridge carries the shading in those mixes. On top of that, the printer runs small calibration and cleaning cycles that draw a little black toner even on days when nothing but colour leaves the tray. So a steadily falling black level alongside healthy colour levels is normal behaviour for this platform, not a leak and not a faulty cartridge.
What does the 8,000-page rating actually assume?
It assumes the industry-standard test page at about 5% coverage — a typical text document with margins and line spacing. Real output varies around that figure: ordinary office letters and invoices land close to it, while pages with big solid-black graphics, dense tables or full-bleed dark backgrounds use far more toner per sheet and pull the total down. Treat 8,000 as the honest planning number for mixed office work, and expect a cartridge to finish sooner in a month dominated by heavy graphics.
The panel says toner is low, but my prints still look solid. Should I change the cartridge now?
Not yet. The low-toner message is a coverage-based estimate, not a measurement of what is physically left, and on a high-yield cartridge the warning can appear with a useful amount of printing still in reserve. Keep working until the output itself tells you otherwise — text turning grey or uneven is the real signal. The sensible move at the first warning is to make sure a spare is on the shelf, then run this cartridge to genuine empty instead of retiring it early.
How do I make sure I reorder this exact cartridge and not a lookalike?
Read the code off the empty cartridge rather than going by the box photo or the printer name alone. This listing is the 113R00726, the high-yield black for the Phaser 6180 line — the code is printed on the cartridge label, and matching it guarantees the replacement is the same 8,000-page unit you just finished, not a smaller standard-fill cartridge with a similar name.
What cover and delivery come with this cartridge?
Every cartridge we sell is backed by a 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns, so a unit that fails early is replaced or refunded rather than argued over. Orders are picked from our warehouses in IL, PA, GA and CA, which keeps transit times short for most of the country, and our support team is available Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if anything looks off. Full delivery and returns details are on our shipping & returns page.
About This High-Yield Black Cartridge
This is a single compatible 113R00726 high-yield black toner cartridge for the Xerox Phaser 6180 family, rated at 8,000 pages and priced at $65.41 — about 0.82 cents per page for the text, shadow and composite-black work that colour machines quietly hand to the black cartridge all day. It fits the Phaser 6180, Phaser 6180DN, Phaser 6180MFP, Phaser 6180MFP/D and Phaser 6180MFP/N. You can browse the wider Xerox toner range on the site, and every order leaves from IL, PA, GA or CA under the same 1-year warranty and 1-year free returns cover described above.
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