Xerox Phaser 6130/N Color Laser Printer

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• Product Dimensions: 15.8 x 15.5 x 15.3 inches ; 46.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 45 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000XSZ6WG
• Item model number: 6130/N
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 26, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

A refreshingly office-friendly, value-packed color laser printer, the Xerox Phaser 6130 is a compact printing solution that’s powerful enough to handle all of your office printing demands with ease. The automated setup process gets you up and running in no time.

Print Performance
The Phaser 6130 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 prices fool you, with print speeds as fast as 16 ppm for black-and-white and 12 ppm for color they are robust enough to replace your aging black-and-white printers while adding color to your documents. Jobs get started quickly with a first-pageout 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 128 MB of standard memory (expandable to 1,152 MB).

The Phaser 6130 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 secure print 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 6130 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. Support for True Adobe PostScript 3 and HP PCL 6 emulation means jobs are quickly and accurately processed. The Phaser 6130 printer features PANTONE Color approved solid-color simulations and include a number of color correction settings to give you true-to-life colors and powerful color management capabilities.

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 6130 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 6130 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 6130 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 6130. In as few as four clicks, you’ll be connected and printing.

To avoid downtime and maximize productivity, the Phaser 6130 printer includes these convenient, proactive troubleshooting tools to help you keep your printer up and running:

• PrintingScout*--Saves precious time by tracking print jobs and providing immediate print-issue alerts with instructions on how to resolve problems.
• Online Support Assistant--Access online troubleshooting information from the same Knowledge Base library used by Xerox customer support professionals, directly from CentreWare IS.

*Windows only

Product Description

Xerox makes color the easy choice with the refreshingly office-friendly, value-packed Phaser 6130 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

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great starter color laser printer for your Mac or PC, August 22, 2008

By	W. Ceschim "Pop" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Print quality is great (including photos). Fast, precise, and easy to hook up into your network (I have a Mac and a PC, and both recognized the printer immediately). I've been using mine for the past 6 months without problems.

The 6130/N is power hungry, so initially I had problems using it in my small office, as computers and printer all shared the same power outlet. The lights would dim and the UPS would trip whenever the printer started working on a document. Had to move it to the other side of the house. That didn't bother me, but it may bother you.

Xerox charges too much for memory expansion. Buy normal 1 GB DDR memory stick for notebooks instead (Kingston's M12864E40 or KVR667D2S5/1G both work fine). Also, if you need your printer connected to your wi-fi network, go with one of those wireless game adapters instead of the module Xerox sells, which is also quite expensive.

One more thing: you will have a shock when you need new toner cartridges, though, as they are quite expensive. I didn't get there yet, as the printer comes with full set of toner cartridges, but you should always consider the price of consumables when buying a printer. The 6130/N is still a good option for me, even considering this extra cost.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for an office or home, September 20, 2008

By	A. Dent "Aragorn" (Minas Anor, GD) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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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 6310N appears to be a solid, quality unit. Given that you will print a couple thousand 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 2500 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 3310N 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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(*) 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.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just got it--and it works great right out of the box, January 19, 2008

By	D. Story "A dad with a home wireless network" (CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I unwrapped this item today, so I don't have any information on its longterm quality. But so far, it's making a very good impression. The set-up and installation were very easy, and it worked great both connected directly with a USB cable, and as a wireless network printer. I plugged it directly into my Netgear WGT624 Super G 108 Mbps Wireless Router (which I also recommend highly). Then went on my Mac laptop, used the Printer Setup Utility, which found the printer, and I was printing in seconds.

My wife's laptop also immediately recognized the printer from the wireless router, and printed too.

Maybe I'm easily satisfied, but I wasn't expecting things to work so quickly and effortlessly.

This printer is definitely more expensive than inkjets, and it's not recommended for photos or labels, but if you need a good quality printer, want to use laser cartridges that are FAR less expensive per page than inkjet cartridges, want it to work on your wireless network, and want fast printing in crisp detail, this so far looks like a good bet.