Brother HL-1230 is a monochrome (black and white) laser printer. It has a print resolution of 600 x 600 dpi, it's print speed is 12 pages per minute with first page out in 15 seconds. The Brother HL-1230 has a 250 sheet input capacity and 150 face down output sheet. The Brother HL-1230 uses two toner cartridges and one drum unit, the toner cartridges consist of a standard yield and a high yield toner. The standard yield can print up to 3,000 pages at 5% coverage, while the high yield can print up to 6,000 pages at 5% coverage. The toner cartridge model numbers are TN430 (TN-430) which is the standard yield and TN460 (TN-460) which is the high yield. The drum unit model number is DR400 (DR-400), which has a duty cycle of 20,000 pages at 5% coverage. The Brother HL-1230 media types are plain paper, bond paper, recycled paper, envelopes, labels and transparencies. It's media sizes are A4, B5, A5 and A6. It also features 2 MB RAM, 66 MHz processor and parallel connectivity.