Comparing The Xerox Phaser 6130N With The Dell Color Laser Printer 1320c!

You will primarily think that the Xerox Phaser 6130/N ($450) seemed like a smaller rendition of other Phaser units as you open its package.

It looks like a lighter, more compact alternative for a person who might need a color laser for personal, home or office utilization.

Even if the exterior of the Xerox Phaser 6130N is designed differently; it has the same Fuji-Xerox engine that the Dell Color Laser Printer 1320c uses.

The Xerox Phaser 6130N printer is more expensive than the latter, though. Instead of taking the work into the computer the network connector that was built in and PostScript processes the image and sends it directly to the printer.

Resemblance of Xerox Phaser 6130N and Dell printer:

The Xerox Phaser 6130N is atypically humble in proportion and weight with it being a color laser, 38 lbs, 15.3″ by 15.8″ by 15.5″ (HWD). Its humble size makes placing it easier around a small area yet it is not small enough to for me to want it atop my workplace.

Adjusting a low-end color laser is mostly typical. The packaging is rid of, paper is fed into the machine, cables and cords are plugged, and software is installed. Taking off its packaging is more tedious than most lasers. Quite differently with this laser, the front panel is first removed, making it lie horizontal before  removing a weighty imaging unit, adjusting restraining ribbons and reinserting the unit.

To do this, you must move the imaging unit over the transfer belt both ways, exiting and entering. It was uncomfortable to move such a weighty thing over the exposed belt but the warranty covered the unlikely yet possible impairment.

You’d like to comment on Xerox’s optimal network installation set to max standards. You can the Xerox Phaser 6130N printer, installed the driver for Windows Xp for tests in only 3 clicks of the mouse. (It may also include a Vista driver).

The main resemblance of a Dell and Xerox Phaser 6130N printer is the speed of their engine. Both have ratings are 16 ppm for black and white and 12ppm for colored prints. To be empirical, the rating is 12 ppm for both monochrome and color.

If you adjust your driver to print colored, even if you are printing only in monochrome, the unit will print in 12 ppm mode. When set for monochrome, it prints at 16ppm yet it also prints even color papers in monochrome. It would seem better to remain with the default settings rather than having to check and reset it each time. You can run all your trials assuming that.

The Xerox Phaser 6130N took its time printing on our business suite, slowly printing out 15-min, 51-sec overall with Quality Logic’s hardware and software. For comparison, the costlier Editor’s Choice Xerox Phaser 6180N was much quicker at 10:22. The Dell 1320, also, was quicker also at 12:57. For a color laser, its photo speed was low at 1:21 for every 4-by-6 and 3:02 for 8-by-10’s.

The quality of the Xerox Phaser 6130N is what sets it apart with distinctively high-caliber text and more class over all compared to many color lasers.

This unit can manage any document you may need it to print. Its text quality is barely under the best laser output, more than half of the text tests producing agreeable results in readability and being well-formed at points, some at 4 and no standard typefaces needing more than 6.

Even complex typefaces with heavy lines, which other machines have difficulty with at less than 20 points passed as both easily readable and well formed at 12 points.

The details quality of its graphics however was more impressive than most color lasers. There was slight irresolution, it was relatively obviously grainy and there were spots of white around color blocks. Xerox Phaser 6130N printer handles slender lines, which don’t appear on other printers well.

Yet this machine’s product is adequate for business needs like presentation give outs. Depending on your discretion, the product is considerable for significant clientelle.

At a close distance, the pictures are passable for true photograph quality. The Xerox Phaser 6130N is a printer that is useful and practical for newsletters, bulletins, circular mail or personal notifications and memos.

There aren’t many features for the Xerox Phaser 6130N. There are no extra trays for the Xerox Phaser 6130N to complement the 250-sheet standard, and no duplexer. PostScript is one of the main motives to purchase this unit, because it guarantees that all documents are printed in the same format from any PostScript printer while others change formats by altering settings.

Having a need for PostScript or not, though, the Xerox Phaser 6130N is a good machine that is a practical pick for a humble workspace.

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