Brother Printing Issues. HL-4040CN Poor color printing quality!

Ok Gang... I'd like to get a problem fixed that I've been living with for over a year now. I posted this back almost a year ago and have been so busy.
I have a Brother HL-4040CN laser printer that printed perfectly when I bought it. About 4-6 months after that the colors started printing faded. I thought it was due to the fact that I had moved and had messed something up when moving. But here's the rub... When I print out the DEMO file that is on the printer, it prints beautiful. But when I print out from my mac which is hooked up via Ethernet, the colors print faded. I also put a simple PDF on a flash drive and printed straight through the printer and it was fine. So I'm at a loss. I am including the link from where I inquired last time and what I had already tried. I am also contacting Brother, but the last time I talked to them, they suggested that it was a software issue since it printed the demo fine.
Here is the link from the other forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2172633&tstart=0
Any other ideas I can try would be appreciated.

When I print out the DEMO file that is on the printer, it prints beautiful.
That's the key to knowing it is not a hardware issue.
This is clearly a software issue. Either the drivers have become outdated, or the setting in the page setup is not right for the source in question, or the source in question is not a high enough resolution.
I also put a simple PDF on a flash drive and printed straight through the printer and it was fine.
Now am I to assume that if you printed the same PDF from the computer, it doesn't print fine?

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