Brother HL-5040 is a monochrome (black and white) laser printer. It 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 3,300 pages at 5% coverage, while the high yield can print up to 6,500 pages at 5% coverage. The toner cartridge model numbers are TN530 (TN-530) which is the standard yield and TN560 (TN-560) which is the high yield toner. The drum unit model number is DR500 (DR-500), which has a duty cycle of 20,000 pages at 5% coverage. It has a print resolution of 2400 x 600 dpi, it's print speed is 17 pages per minute with first page out in 12 seconds. The Brother HL-5040 has a 250 sheet input capacity and 150 sheet face down output capacity. The Brother HL-5040 media types are envelopes, labels, plain paper, bond paper and card stock. It's media sizes are letter A size, legal, executive, A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, folio and envelopes. The Brother HL-5040 also features manual duplex via software driver, 16 MB RAM, 133 MHz processor, parallel, ethernet and USB connectivity.