M1522 Low Quality Printing From Mac On Network

We have a HP LaserJet M1522nf MFP on our network. It is used by both Macs and PC's without much problem. But the quality from the Macs are really poor verses the Windows running XP or W2K. If I print a web page on the Mac, it looks jaggy & dim, like I've got the printer on lowest quality printing. I print the very same web page from one of the PCs and it comes out beautiful. Crystal clear. I've installed the latest software from HP download site with no change. I've tried printing with generic PS driver with no improvement. I've tried different programs. The problem is not program specific.
PLEASE HELP. I can no longer print documents to my colleague's printer which is a big hinderance to productivity. This is the first HP printer that has given me any problem with cross platform issues.

After trying lots of suggestions from here and the HP forums, I finally called HP and they walked me through the usual steps, which included some manual uninstalls of HP prefs & frameworks then reinstalling the printing software. None of that helped. They finally had me reset the printer to the factory defaults. (Power Up with the Down Arrow and Cancel buttons pressed at the same time) That did the trick. If there were any settings for quality set manually on the printer they only affected the Mac printing AND were not overridden by settings in the Mac print dialog that would suggest that they could be overridden. Seems to me something isn't operating quite like it should.
But... HP helped me fix it and for that I'm grateful.

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