Best color settings for printer

I'm creating a newsletter for a group my organization works with. They want to include tons of pictures which I am editing in Photoshop CS4.
We have a toshbia printer/ copier in our office that runs on CMYK. I converted all the images to CMYK (SWOP) hoping they would print more clearly. However, the colors are seriously off and all the images come out incredibly blurry. Everything else is printing very crisp. Is this a color issue or a printer issue? Anyone know how I can get better quality with correct colors?
Thanks!

What makes you think this is a CMYK printer? Is it driven by a Postscript RIP?
Even though they all use CMYK toners or inks, non-Postscript printers and copiers are considered RGB devices and expect to receive RGB data, which they convert internally using their own conversion tables. If you send CMYK to such printers it gets converted back to RGB and then to CMYK a second time.
If this really is a Postscript CMYK device, the odds are pretty good that SWOP is not the optimal profile to match. It's also important that you decide where color managemtn will take place, in ID or in the printer, and disable the other option during printing. In other word, if you choose Let InDesign Determine Colors youmust turn off and printer color management in the printer controls, or if you choose Postscript Printer Determines Colors you should be sure there is color management in the printer that is enabled.

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