I need advice on a quality color-laser printer to work with my Mac Book Pro and my wife's Mac Book

Hi:
I have a Mac Book Pro and my wife a Mac Book, both with Intel Chips.
I'm running OS 10.7.5 while she is running 10.6.8.
Our budget is between $200 and $400,
We would like the following features:
1. Wireless printing over a linksys router home network. It would be very nice to have the printer in a central location without having to have it USB'd directly into the router. Our router has a fixed location in the house and the printer will be located elsewhere in the house.
2. Reasonably fast to fast printing (pages /minute)
3. Color and black/white printing if the cost isn't too much higher to get color printing capability.
4. AirPrint from iphone 5, if possible.
5. High quality photo printing is not a requirement......looking more for high quality document printing (Word, pdf's, etc) and printing of material from the web.
Thanks in advance for advice!
Michael

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Printers/Printers

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