Pale Printing

Hello to all
With Adobe reader 8.1.2 on Windows XP SP2 and a good old Canon BJC-85 with black cartridge, I find it impossible to get a well contrasted and dark print. Always puts out a light grey print, sometimes impossible to read. My printer is OK with Word. Il looks like a problem in image printing but none of the options in the printer menu seem to work.
Thence, my pdf docs are useless unless I convert them to .doc which is pretty cumbersome.
Any answer welcome!
Bye

Thanks for all answers,
but setting to B&W doesnt work. Will look at canon's place and report.
Bye

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