Officejet 7000 faint printing

We have an Officejet 7000 E809a wide format printer in the office. It appears to be working perfectly for most people, except for one computer that when printing to the printer documents come out very faint, as if they were printed in draft mode. This computer is set up exactly the same as the other computers in the office - Windows 7, Office 2003, same printer driver. The printer preferences are set to 'best' quality and I've even copied the normal.dot template from a working machine to eliminate that as the cause.
The same document prints perfectly fine on a HP LaserJet in the office, just not to Officejet 7000.  I've tried deleting and recreating the printer on this computer, I've updated the driver, deleted the driver and reinstalled from the server hosting the printer, deleted the registry entries for the printer and reinstalled it, but nothing seems to have made any difference. Short of reinstalling Windows on this computer I really don't know what else to try.
Does anybody have any suggestions please?

Hi @GavinS38 ,
Thank you for taking the time out of your day to ask that question on the HP Forums today!
I understand you are experiencing feint printing on 1 specific computer in your office. All of the other computers print fine but this specific computer is printing feint.
Try taking a run through of this generic HP Officejet 7000 print quality document and see if it fixes the issue for you. Troubleshooting Print-Quality Issues
Let me know the outcome! Look forward to hearing back from you.
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