OVERVIEW: Like its brother the 6125, the Xerox Phaser 6130 comes with everything for right-out-of-the-box color printing, plus expandable memory and PostScript3.
PROS: Weighing in at 46 pounds and a height of 15”, the boxlike Phaser 6130’s has a true 15.5” x 17.5” footprint. Sitting on a normal office table, the 6130 sits at about elbow height.
In less than 14 seconds, the Phaser 6130 will start printing up to 16 black-and-white pages per minute. The selling point of this color laser comes with its speed. Using a single-pass print design, color prints can be as fast as 12ppm.
The 6130 comes with a 250-sheet cassette tray that supports up to legal-size (8½” x 14”) paper without expanding the printer’s footprint. A multi-purpose feed slot is built into the paper tray for manual feeding transparencies, labels, post cards, envelopes, 3” x 5” postcards, and paper of various bond weights up to 90 lb.
Having built-in Ethernet network support and hi-speed USB, this printer is right at home either in the middle of an office floor or directly connected to a secretary’s computer. The built-in 128MB of printer memory can be expanded up to over 1GB for handling larger and more print jobs.
Understanding the printing needs of today’s businesses in providing support for the major software applications, Xerox has included the popular HP PCL6 and Adobe PostScript3 print emulators to satisfy the most diverse office.
The intuitive control panel on the Phaser 6130 has a multi-line LCD Display, plus buttons that make manual control of the printer relatively painless. By default, it immediately shows you the toner levels for each color. The control panel, toner levels, printer information, configuration, emulation, and network settings can be performed.
The printer produces up to 52dB of sound printing, while idling at 26dB. To give you an idea of what that means: 60 decibels is the level of typical conversations and 30 decibels is the level of a quiet room. You don’t want to have this printer stationed in a conference room chugging away when a meeting is in progress. But, when placed in the copy room or in the middle of a busy office floor, any printing noises will blend in with the background.
CONS: One of the sacrifices of a color printer is print speeds. However the Phaser 6130 has unusually slow print speeds even in B&W mode at a 600 x 600 dpi resolution. While the color print speed is impressive, a business or office that prints mostly in monochrome should invest in a separate monochrome laser printer instead of relying on the 6130 for both jobs.
INK / TONER NEEDS: The toner cartridges that come with the Phaser 6130 are only good for about 500 pages (or a lot fewer pages if you plan on doing a lot of printing photographic images). The black toner has double the print capacity of the 1,000-page color toners. To save on costs toner combo-packages are available
A side panel on the side of the 6130 provides access to the four toner cartridges. Something to consider when finding a parking space in the office for this printer.
