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4.5 stars
"Good Printer for the Price. Better Value than others in same catagory."
Pros: Prints are clean & Crisp. Photos may look better on an inkjet. 1yr on-site-warranty. Very nice small footprint. Much lighter and not noicy as imagined or purported by some people.
Cons: Not for Home use if you do litlle printing. Spits out start up pages when you turn on the printer. Uses 80Watts/hr in standby.
Summary: This is a truly a very well made printer, solid and compact. It's networking ready so you can place it in the corner of a room. The instructions are Wrong - it says to use a crossover cable to connect to a Hub/Router. Not so - the correct method is to use a Straight Cable to a Hub/Router, and a Crossover if connected Printer to PC. (Funny it printed using both type of cables with a Xerox service man watching the set-up.)
It spit out 78 setup pages. Each time you do anything to change the printing it spits out 2 pages automatically. A BIG waste of paper and toner. It will also spit out 2 pages every time you turn the printer "off" and "on" again. So you will have to decide yourself whether its worth Toner and paper or 80 Watts/hr of standby electricity.
The IS (CWIS) setup page needs correction. Do not use the List giving the IP of computers allowed to use the printer. It will give an error in the OS Control Panel. After Xerox Service removed the list it printed nicely. (He said he reported that error to Xerox, its the number 1 problem in setup.)
A pricey Wireless Network Adapter is available. The cost of All Toner Cartridges exceed the cost of the printer at $279.99 if bought at Costco.
One nice thing it will continue printing in BLACK when any color toner runs out, contrary to a HP that will quit working when ANY cartridge/toner is empty or out of date.
There appears not to be much do-it-yourself tech support web pages available as with HP.
I was able to fix a 15 year old HP Laser, and doubt the same will be true for this Xerox.
The Phaser 6130 uses basically the same components as the Phaser 6120 with the exception that the Printer Cartridges are unique to the 6130.
The Series runs in this order: 6120 then 6110, 6115 then 6130, for future parts requirements.
All said I feel this printer is an exceptional value for a small business. Black 4,500 pages, and color 1,500 pages. The Drum Film Unit 20,000 pages Black, & 10,000 Color.
(If you have on-site-warranty, as I had, the service man shows up the next day, and as in my case he came the same day.)
The Phaser 6130 weights about as much as my HP 6110 All-in-one and the noise level is equal to my HP Lazer (Black only) and the HP All-in-one, as can be expected from most all printers and lower cost printers).
I didn't give this printer a "10" until there is an option to quit wasting paper and toner on "turn-on" and "on-setup". Therefore I don't feel this printer is as GREEN as made out to be. All Printers going back 10 years go into sleep mode when not used, so Xerox did nothing special to save energy but rather made the Phaser "Un-Green".
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Good Afternoon,
I read your review and thought I would let you know how to turn off the Start-up page... Go to the machine control panel and press menu. Then scroll down to Admin menu and press ok. The scrol down to System Setup and press ok. Finnally go to Start up page and toggle it to off.
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Xerox Phaser 6130/N - printer - color - laser:
$449.00 - $511.77
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Clary Business Machines Co.
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