Excel pictures pixelating

Hello!
I have a spreadsheet I use for quotations at work, with a JPG image, a logo. It's been a challenge to print it to PDF without the logo pixelating terribly. I overcame the issue with some custom print settings in Acrobat. Several people at work have started to use my spreadsheet, but they don't have the settings right (and/or don't have patience to bother with them), so I am looking for a fix for this.
The problem does not happen when printing to a printer, so that's why I am looking at Acrobat for a solution, but the problem may turn out to be something with Excel. I have a lot of VBA programming in this spreadsheet, so my Plan B is to come up with some code to programmatically change the Acrobat print settings (so the user doesn't have to bother with them).
I am using Acrobat 9 Pro and Windows 7 on my laptop. Acrobat X Pro and Windows 8 on my PC. The problem occurs in both.
Here are the Acrobat print settings
I would like to attach a sample spreadsheet but can not. I am attaching the logo here
I have this in 600x208, 1200x417, and 4584x1593 resolutions (sized to the same proportions on the spreadsheet). I've tried resolutions of 300 all the way to 4000 in Excel's settings. 1200 seems to get the best results, with no noticeable improvements above that (although I know i have some downsampling occuring in the Acrobat settings).
The logo is as crisp as you could want when you view it with a picture viewer, so I don't think the problem is the logo resolution being too low. As mentioned, Excel prints it to paper just fine.
I feel like I've tried 1000 different combinations in both Excel and Acrobat, so I am just out of ideas and need some help!

This tip "may" apply only if your using a Mac, or may be the same feature in Windows as well:
when you open the Print menu:
Set up your printer as you have.
Second button from top is called Presets
Click on Presets and scroll all the way down to save preset
when window opens, in the Field give a Name.
Next time you need to do this just choose the preset.

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