All releases of Workstation Pro 15.x -- documents with color always print B&W.
Printer properties on the host are set to allow color and documents (eg. PDF files) always print correctly. On the guest, they used to print correctly (with color) prior to the decoupling of the virtual printer support from VMware Tools. Now, host printers do not show up in the guest Devices and Printers list, but when selecting to print the host printers are included in the dropdown list of available printers. After selecting a host printer the properties can be viewed to confirm that Color is set, however the document actually prints B&W.
Similar behavior with the Double-sided property. After selecting the host printer that has duplex capability that feature can be selected, but the document always prints single-sided. Same behavior using both the PS and the PCL6 Universal drivers.
Printer is HP Laserjet CP2025dn printer. All prints correctly on the host but always prints B&W and single-sided when printed from the guest.
How can this be diagnosed and fixed?