Laser Jet Printer/Color Text Prints Grey

Hi everyone, I have a HP LaserJet 2430, black & white printer hooked up to my iMac. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.6. When I want to print, for example, an email where a color was used for the font, the colored font prints in grey. When I was able to use the printer driver of my choice, I believe I used a PS or post script driver and everything printed in solid black. Now that the operating system is choosing the drivers for us, I seem to have this grey text issue. I've tried going to HP and downloading older drivers but they wouldn't install on my system, something about the drivers being older versions or something. I'd sure like to be able to choose my own drivers. Can anyone lend any help on this?
I am able to make the colored text print a little darker but I have to go through many dialog boxes to change different settings and I just want to print quickly but any application but be able to read the text a little easier.
Thanks for any help!

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To get your issue more exposure I would suggest posting it in the commercial forums since the Color LaserJet printer 3600 is a commercial product. You can do this at HP Enterprise Business Community.
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