The Color LaserWriter contains many different consumable items that periodically need replacing. The most frequently replaced items include the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toner cartridges, photoconductor, and fuser oil.
Approximately every 60,000 pages additional items need replacing to ensure good print quality. When the fuser and alert LED's light up on the printer's status panel the Fuser Replacement Kit must be installed. The fuser replacement kit consists of a new fuser assembly, transfer drum cleaning kit, separation discharger, ozone filter, and air filter.
The fuser replacement kit can be installed by the customer using the instructions contained in Appendix F of the Color LaserWriter user's guide. Customer's who no longer have their user's manuals can view a copy using the following URL: "
http://support.info.apple.com/manuals/manuals.qry".
The following table contains a listing of the major Color LaserWriter consumables that are available from Apple.
| Options and Accessories | Order Number |
| Color LaserWriter Cyan Toner Cartridge | M3757G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Magenta Toner Cartridge | M3760G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Yellow Toner Cartridge | M3758G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Black Toner Cartridge | M3756G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Photoconductor Replacement Kit | M3761G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Fuser Oil | M3755G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Transparencies-Letter | M3876G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Transparencies-A4 | M3877G/A |
| Color LaserWriter 250-Sheet Feeder | M3762G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Universal Cassette | M3874G/A |
| Color LaserWriter Internal Hard Disk Drive | M3875G/A |
| 110 volt Fuser Replacement Kit | M3867G/A |
| 220 volt Fuser Replacement Kit | M4235ZM/A |
| Apple IEE-1284 Parallel Cable | M3874G/A |