Xerox Phaser 6125/N Color Laser Printer

by Xerox

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.8 x 15.5 x 15.3 inches ; 37.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 45 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0013I0GTI
• Item model number: 6125/N
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 1, 2007

Product Description

Manufacturer Product Description

Xerox Phaser 6125/N Product Description
Xerox most affordable color laser printer, the Xerox Phaser 6125 Color Laser Printer is a refreshingly office-friendly, value-packed printing solution that’s powerful enough to handle all of your office printing demands with ease. The Phaser 6125 incorporates several exclusive technologies used in Xerox professional graphic arts devices to deliver outstanding color and print resolution. At 15.75 x 15.51 x 15.3 in. (WxDxH) and 28 lbs, the Phaser 6125 is small and lightweight so that it fits on your desktop and the automated setup process gets you up and running in no time.

Phaser 6125 supplies are conveniently accessed via side panel.

The intuitive front panel interface gives users quick and easy access to the printer's built-in features and settings.

Quickly check toner levels on the printer's front panel display or at your computer.

Print Performance
The Phaser 6125 is a compact color laser printer that is powerful enough to handle the office printing demands of small workgroups and busy individuals with ease. Don’t let the low price fool you, with print speeds as fast as 16 ppm for black-and-white and 12 ppm for color it is robust enough to replace your aging black-and-white printers while adding color to your documents. Jobs get started quickly with a first-page-out time as fast as 14 seconds for black-and-white and 17 seconds color, and even jobs with graphics, photos and charts are processed quickly with a 333 MHz processor and 64 of standard memory.

The Phaser 6125 printer offers advanced print features that you might be surprised to find on a printer that’s so affordable. Expand the print capabilities of your office, with features ranging from booklet printing to adding watermarks to documents.

Print Quality
The ability to deliver vibrant color prints and crisp, fine-line detail involves many attributes of a color printer. The Phaser 6125 printer offers multiple print modes that deliver up to 600 x 600 x 4 dpi resolution, enabling an amazing 16 shades of color per pixel. This printer utilizes Xerox-exclusive EA-HG toner technology, which features toner particles with uniform size and shape — resulting in sharp text and fine-line detail.

Common types of office applications include presentations, reports, proposals, spreadsheets and brochure layouts. The impact of these kinds of applications is maximized when they are printed in color. The high-quality color laser output of Phaser 6125 printer will help enliven your presentations, enhance the communication of your ideas in marketing collaterals and improve the professional look of your customer proposals and documents.

Setup, Installation and Management
Once the Phaser 6125 printer is unpacked and in place, the installation process is simple and automated. Pre-loaded toner cartridges make this printer virtually plug-and-play — simply plug in the power and connectivity cables, and turn on the printer. The Phaser 6125 printer will automatically connect to your network. Then, using the included installation CD, step through the wizard-based print driver installation process to connect your computer to the Phaser 6125. In as few as four clicks, you’ll be connected and printing.

To avoid downtime and maximize productivity, the Phaser 6125 printer includes convenient, proactive troubleshooting tools to help you keep your printer up and running. The Online Support Assistant gives you access to online troubleshooting information from the same Knowledge Base library used by Xerox customer support professionals, directly from CentreWare IS.



What’s in the Box

• Toner cartridges (capacity: 500 pages each¹)
• Power cord
• Software and documentation

¹Average standard pages. Average Continuous Composite CMY Yield in accordance with ISO/IEC 19798. Yield will vary based on image, area coverage and print mode.

Product Description

Xerox makes color the easy choice with the refreshingly office-friendly, value-packed Phaser 6125 color laser printer. This's compact printing solution powerful enough to handle all of your office printing demands with ease.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for an office or home, May 18, 2009

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A. Dent "Aragorn" (Minas Anor, GD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Xerox Phaser 6125/N Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

I am awarding this printer 5 stars for its ease of installation, quality of output, quality of workmanship, unit price and the average cost of a printed page.

The Xerox Phaser 6125N appears to be a solid, quality unit. Given that you will print about 500 pages before you need to buy your next toner, you get a lot of value for the price. Thereafter, based on the prices currently listed at Amazon, paying $70 for 2000 black and white pages is not bad at all. In fact, on a per-page basis, you are paying significantly less vs. what you would spend on a generic ink-jet printer.

I installed the printer at home, in the basement, plugged into a wireless Linksys router via an Ethernet wire. My printer is now taking jobs from 5 different computers, connected through the same router over Wi-Fi and running Windows XP and Vista.

The unit comes in a nice, neat box where very little space is wasted. The unit is very much assembled and ready to go. There is a `Quick Installation', poster-sized guide (also a 'flash' animation on the CD) that explains in detail how to remove the various sticky tapes that held the printer together during transportation and lock in the toner cartridges. Once that's done, you plug in the power, connect the printer via either USB or Ethernet (USB and Ethernet cables NOT included), turn it on, set up your favorite language if it's not English and you are ready to go. On the computer side, you need to install the Xerox printer driver.

The driver installation(*) was relatively quick and nearly flawless. For it to proceed, the setup program must first find the printer. Since the printer was not physically connected to the laptop, it immediately started to look for IP-based printers. You must make sure that the printer is turned on and it has an IP address(**) while this is happening. The status page, which you can print from the front panel, will tell you if that is the case. My DHCP-enabled Linksys router assigned an address to the printer so no complicated setup was required. On the Vista side, I had to give Vista permission for a couple of tasks to complete. The setup gives you the opportunity to register your printer online. I agreed and it was quick and easy even though I was surprised that the setup knew my printer's serial number but not the model which I have to pick it myself from a long drop-down list.

From the moment I opened the box to the time I printed my first page off a document, it took less than one hour. I can see how some users may require help with the network installation part. I cannot say how Xerox supports end-users with more complex network setups because I did not have to call the tech support.


The Phaser 6125N is a large, solid box (see Amazon's picture) and it is so because it holds large (fully loaded) toner cartridges and the fuser unit. Printing is quick and quiet and I experienced no paper jams yet. The colors are bright and both the text and the graphics are crisp - I printed some very complicated flowcharts and a colorful logo to test and I was satisfied with the result. Out of the box, over 200 PCL and PostScript fonts are supported. Other features include 128Mb of memory, support for various paper sizes and paper types including glossies and envelopes, it can be set to go into PowerSaver mode after a period of inactivity (and I reduced it from the 30 minute default to 5 minutes), can be set to produce an audible tone on various conditions, will produce Configuration pages with values for various settings and parameters including the environment's temperature and humidity.

This printer should be ideal for the small office and it could be great for the home if the relatively large size does not bother you. In my case, it doesn't because it's going to stay in the basement. Memory expansion or wireless connections were not issues for me but those who have such concerns should do some research before buying.

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(*) Be aware that a nearly identical model, the Xerox Phaser 6130/N Color Laser Printer offers a few enhancements and extra capabilitis such as:

- Double standard memory (128 MB vs. 64MB) and the ability to upgrade it up to 1152MB
- Larger toner cartridges
- Mac OS support
- Built-in PCL emulation and PostScript 3

(**) Note that you will have to install the driver on ALL the computers that are going to use the printer. Every time you install the driver, you will be prompted to register again. After you complete your first registration, ignore any subsequent invitations.

(***) I can think of 3 basic way you can connect the printer without having to buy any extra hardware, other than a cable, if you don't have one already:
1 - Personal printer - use a USB cable to connect it directly to your desktop computer (or your laptop's docking station)
2 - Shared printer - after connecting the printer as above and you install the printer driver, share it (the specific steps depend on your operating system but it's usually easy). This way, anyone on the same network can use it for as long as the computer that's sharing it is up.
3 - Network printer - you plug it into a network port or directly into a router using an Ethernet cable. Unless you place some restrictions, everyone on the network should be able to use the printer for as long as it is on and the network is up.

(****) The 6125 Toner capacity are: 2000 pages for 'black' and 1000 pages for the Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. If found a 'third party' that offers the set of 4 cartridges for about 55: Xerox Phaser 6125 Set of 4 Compatible Laser Toner Cartridges: 1 each of Black 106R01334 , Cyan 106R01331, Magenta 106R01332, Yellow 106R01333 by LD Products.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Impressive quality for low price, but toner ran out after only 160 pages, May 9, 2009

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Technologist "Neil" (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Xerox Phaser 6125/N Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

Update after several months use:

The printer has worked flawlessly. However, the toner life is very poor. The initial toners are rated at 500 pages (just one ream of paper). The printer has now printed a total of 544 pages and has used up 2.5 complete sets of toner cartidges (10 total cartridges), I'm just ordering my 5th set. :(

That all makes this an expensive to run printer.

Given that the Xerox "starter" cartidges that come with it are sepecified at 500 pages (which mine didn't even get close to half of that), figure at least the cost of a complete set of toner replacements when comparing against other printers.

3rd party "LD" replacement toner that I've used works well (can't see any difference in print quality or color) but also clearly doesn't last anything close to the rated 2000 black / 1000 page color claim of the genuine Xerox replacements, in fact I estimate the 3rd party toner life as being under 200 pages based on use to date which is 25-30 cents per page even at current third party prices.

Bottom line, great printer, love the features, excellent print quality and low initial cost but you'll pay hugely through the nose for using it. I would cetainly consider another Xerox based on this, but the running costs would have to be much much better.
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Original Review:

Mine (bought from [...]) arrived without user guide or CD. It did have a single sheet setup guide and it took about 2-3 minuites to get it out of the box and set up - very easy. Not too big or heavy (my wife carried it). I had to download the driver and am probably missing some software that would have been on the CD, but the software setup (networked) was very simple and painless. The driver's print settings seem especially clear and easy to use.

I've had it less than a day, so I will update if things change, but the print quality is very good. Very nice crisp deep blacks. My decision came down to a Brother HL-4070 (with duplex) or this Phaser which was an amazing deal at [...] ($[...] and apparently sold out within two days). I had seen printouts from the Brother and although crisp, the colors were washed out. The colors on this Phaser are much more pleasing.

Running costs look high (unless buying 3rd party toner) and the starter toner that comes with it is claimed good only for 500 pages although my first cartige expired at 160 pages and a second is showing "replace sson".

Given only 500 pages worth of supplied toner, I figured the price of a new set of into the comparison with the Brother. The (very small) toner cartriges are easy to access and replace from a door on the side of the printer, no having to pull out heavy / messy drum units. Well designed.

It's fairly quiet, and is very intuitive to use. I like to use thicker 24lb or 28lb paper, and unlike my Brother 8860DN B/W printer, the pages do not excessively curl, so I'm happy about that. (Despite the curling, I would buy the 8860DN again in a second).

One advantage of the Brother (color) HL-4070DN is the duplexor and that was my only hesitation in buying the Phaser 6125 (Check out the Phaser 6130, it does have a duplexor, but unfortunatley didn't have the same amazing deal). However, I was pleasantly surprised with how the 6125 helps with manual duplexing. The print settings let you select duplex as if it had auto-duplex and then a window pops up instructing you on how to proceed. Basically it prints out the even pages and tells you to put them back in the paper tray (same way round as they came out) and it then prints the odd pages - very painless. It's probably actually faster than the automatic duplexor because the continous single sided printing modes are much faster than when duplexing.

So far, very happy. Photographs come out quite well really, not as good as a good inkjet, but better than I had hoped. Perhaps some color match software would help (which for all I know may come on the missing CD).

Reasonably quiet in operation and then makes a soft humming sound (less noisy than the fan of my PC) while it remains in standby after a print and then goes silent after 30 mins (which I think you can change).

Hope that helps!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Printer - Expensive Toner, October 1, 2010

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havardprinting - See all my reviews

This review is from: Xerox Phaser 6125/N Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

I love this printer, but the toner is killing me. This "5%" idea is stupid. No one uses just 5% per sheet. They should just say that you are only going to get 250 pages of color output and not try to pretend that you will get 1000 copies. The sad thing is that they are making a killing off the toner. The cost of a toner cartridge should be about $4.95-$5.95 per color and not these ridiculous numbers of $68.99 per color. I'm using the off brand, but here is the thing. If you have a problem while under warranty, that will be the first thing that they will ask and they will try to deny that it is their problem because you did not use their original toner. Great printer but expensive toner.