Faulty printing through ethernet (PhotoSmart C6280)

Hello, this is my first post. Nice to meet you and happy new year!
My printer is HP PhotoSmart C6280 and I connect it through ethernet to a gigabit switch.
The OS of my main PC is Windows 7 32bit and I use the latest HP Photosmart Full Feature Software and Drivers (v13.1.0).
In my LAN, I have manually assigned an IP address for my printer.
I'm facing faulty printing problems: I get 'breaks' in the lines of the printed page. I mean that some portions of the text are printed and other aren't.  Also, brightness/contrast of the characters is not the same throughout the page. I tried many times to clean and align the heads but without improvement. 
After many tests I have noticed that this problem is more intense when there is network traffic, for example when I download files from the internet (through torrents or rapidshare).
I have another PC in my LAN which I use as a Home Server. This PC runs Windows Home Server and since there are not drivers for this OS, I use Microsoft's drivers for HP 990c, as suggested. The strange thing is that I have no problems when I send the print  from this PC (WHS with 990c internal drivers).
Can you help?
Thank you...

Please help!
I suspect that it's a driver issue, since I can print fine through my second PC (Windows Home Server) with the windows internal 990c drivers, regardless of the network traffic.
Are there alternative Windows 7 drivers for my c6280 that I can use?
Better description of the problem: In my main PC (Windows 7) the printing shows horizontal gaps in the text lines and the brightness of the characters is uneven.

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