My aging Samsung CLP620, also a workgroup-class color laser printer, was never great at photorealistic color, but it's always been tolerable. As it's gotten older, it's definitely gotten worse. For printing documents that are primarily b&w with color figures, it's fine. If I really, really want to print photos, I have a stash of photo paper and a cheap color inkjet printer/scanner/fax thing on my desk. That gets much better color quality, but of course, everything involving inkjet printing is awful and unreliable.