I have a Richo I got from Printer Showcase.

They have a nice service where you send them an image and a few bucks, along with the printers you are interested in; They print your image on up to 5 printrs and fedx you the printouts.   So you can see the print quality yourself.

I use mine for general office work and to print DVD jackets for short runs < 100.   Works great.

Color lasers are not as photo realistic as high res inkjet.  But they are a heck of a lot faster and the better ones are close enough for what I do.   But you wont be printing big photo portraits on them.

You need to have some volume to justify a laser; I think.

This is the one I have:

http://www.printershowcase.com/spc420dn.aspx

Yea; the toner is almost $200 each, but it lasts for 15,000 pages!

The price of toner would just about pay for a new printer. I purchased Lexmark and so far I love it. But then again I haven't had to replenish the toner yet either. The one thing I noticed was even though the printer was postscript it came with just a HP printer driver. I had to get the postscript driver from their web site.

It was a C544dn Color Laser Printer @ $374 but was on sale at the time. Mine was purchased from pcconnection.

The duplex is nice, but you can see a faint copy of the previous page. This may be due to running multiple copies, I haven't tried it on a sequence of pages yet. It is extremely fast for my needs. It takes longer tranfering data to the printer then it does printing it.

Printing photos is nice, they seam darker than on screen but I think thats to be expected as my system is not color corrected.

I have the printer connected to a network router with wireless connection, which is cool for printing from the laptop.

Anyway good luck with whatever you decide.

Edit: One thing I have noticed about laser printers is the lack of photo paper. So printing on plain paper could be effecting my prints.