Which toner fits the HP LaserJet Pro M130fn?

Learning to read your machine's name

HP codes the functions into the model suffix, and it holds across almost the whole LaserJet range:

• n — Ethernet networking, so a shared machine;
• w — Wi-Fi (the M130fn has none, it connects by cable);
• d — automatic duplex;
• f — fax;
• s — automatic document feeder.

This is not trivia: those letters decide the consumable across several series, and here they explain the gap in consumption between two machines that take the same toner.

Two functions that print without you

On a USB machine sitting next to its user, every printed page has been decided on. On the M130fn, two sources escape that control:

• an incoming fax comes out on its own, advertising included, at night and at weekends too. Receiving to memory, which can be set in the fax menu, removes that consumption;
• network sharing puts the machine at the disposal of the whole office, including people with no idea of the toner's state.

On a recommended cycle of 10,000 pages a month and a 1,600-page toner, the margin for error is thin: this is a machine where someone has to be put in charge of watching the stock.

The drum, not to be confused with the toner

The 19A is a separate part, rated for 12,000 pages — about seven and a half toners. A fault that always comes back at the same place on the page comes from it, not from the powder. The M130a page sets out that ratio and the right reordering pace; the two machines share exactly the same consumables.