A duplex color printer includes a body defining a plurality of docking bays for receiving color ink cartridges; a pair of print engines mounted within the body in an opposed manner to define a print media feed path therebetween, each print engine comprising at least one printhead coupled in fluid communication with the color ink cartridges; a pair of print media trays mounted on either side of the body for respectively containing print media; a print media feed arrangement configured to feed print media from one of the trays, along the print media path during a printing operation carried out by the print engines and into the other one of the trays; and an internal hard drive for storing page description language (PDL) files and rasterized page images.