HP M130fn: wired black printing with a simplex color feeder review

A wired small-office fax and scan station

The HP LaserJet Pro MFP M130fn suits an established USB or Ethernet desk that needs black printing, copying, color document scanning and analog fax. Its 35-sheet feeder is useful for ordinary one-sided originals. Its main compromise is manual two-sided printing, alongside the need to maintain a compatible full scanning installation.

This assessment covers discontinued US G3Q59A#BGJ and its documented 110–127-V, 50/60-Hz configuration. The fn has a two-line LCD, fax keypad and wired networking. It does not receive the fw model's touchscreen or included wireless hardware simply because both share a family guide.

HP declares up to 23 monochrome Letter pages per minute, separately from 22 ppm on A4. Recommended monthly output is 150–1,500 pages, while the maximum duty figure is 10,000. These are maker specifications, not measured review results or a recommendation to run continuously at maximum duty.

Install the scanner as well as the printer

The included computer interfaces are USB 2.0 and Fast Ethernet 10/100. The exact US specifications control over an older family insert that describes gigabit Ethernet. A print queue alone does not establish a functioning computer scanner: install the compatible exact-model scanning software for the actual USB or wired-network arrangement.

The guide describes HP Scan through HP Printer Assistant on Windows and HP Easy Scan on Mac. The Mac procedure explicitly accepts an original in the feeder or on the glass and saves the completed scan to a file. Older OS and application instructions identify intended workflows rather than guaranteeing every function on a current computer.

AirPrint and Mopria are independently listed for the exact fn. A suitable shared network can connect the wired printer with a compatible mobile device on the same local subnet. That does not give the printer its own Wi-Fi radio, Wi-Fi Direct or a mobile scanning route. Historical cloud-service listings are not promises of continuing availability.

Keep feeder size and glass size explicit

The exact technical support body specifies a 35-sheet feeder and expressly says duplex ADF scanning is unavailable. Color capture reaches up to 300 × 300 dpi through the feeder, or 600 × 600 dpi on the glass; monochrome glass scanning is separately listed at 1,200 × 1,200 dpi. Color scanning does not make this a color printer.

Letter and A4 capture are established on both routes. There is a source conflict for Legal originals: a media-handling list names Legal in the feeder, but the same detailed scan-size fields stop at 8.5 × 11.7 inches. This finder does not guarantee Legal scan files from that conflicting evidence. Printing Legal pages is separately confirmed.

Use the document indicators and guides for the chosen original route, and use the glass for material unsuitable for automatic feeding. A two-sided original needs an attended, manually managed capture routine; neither the feeder nor a marketing phrase about fewer steps proves automatic two-sided files.

Screen-specific functions stay screen-specific

The fn's physical controls include Copy Menu, Start Copy, a numeric fax keypad and Start Fax. Its copying routine uses those controls rather than the fw touchscreen menus. A two-sided-copy-to-one-sided-sheet feature is not an automatic print duplexer.

The older technical insert lists email and network-folder options broadly, including fn. However, the full operating guide expressly labels configured Scan to Email as touchscreen-only. This assessment therefore qualifies the actual compatible computer file-scanning workflow and does not promise those standalone panel delivery menus on the fn.

Fax additionally needs suitable telephone service and configuration through the telephone-line port. Ethernet and USB do not replace that service. The documented shared voice/fax arrangement has its own answer-mode and dial-tone settings. Administration passwords protect settings; they do not establish PIN-held computer print release.

150 sheets and a manual return pass

The included input holds 150 ordinary sheets at the guide's 75-g/m², 20-lb basis. The exact US output is 100 sheets; the older insert's 150-sheet output and 50-page feeder are retained as source differences, not added to paper reserve. Letter, Legal and A4 printing are supported without counting a separate priority tray.

Load ordinary stock face up with its top edge entering first, straighten replenished paper without fanning, and set the guides snugly. Up to ten envelopes use the input face up with the short return-address end entering first; select Envelope and the actual size in the driver.

Windows manual duplex prints the first sides, then requires reloading the stack printed side down/top first and confirming at the computer. The Mac manual-duplex procedure needs the HP driver and may be unavailable through AirPrint. Automatic duplex remains unavailable whichever network or mobile convenience is used.

Budget toner and drum separately

The original box lists approximately 700 introductory toner pages and a 12,000-page imaging drum. Replacement 17A CF217A toner is declared around 1,600 pages, separately from 19A CF219A drum life, under ISO/IEC 19752 continuous-printing conditions. Actual yield varies.

The exact US page gives a 16.34 × 11.34 × 11-inch body and 16.76 lb without a cartridge-weight basis; generic guide dimensions and weights differ. Allow open scanner, feeder, paper and supply access, with maximum depth about 20.13 inches. A current feeder MFP with supported software and automatic duplex is a sensible alternative when this older manual routine would interrupt daily work.