Poor quality prints from HP 1320n x64 Windows 7

Hi
I am running CS4 on Windows 7 64bit and I've noticed that b/w prints from my HP Laserjet 1320n is very poor. I typically print screen shots or print single page PDFs to the 1320n. The output is low res and looks like newspaper print magnified several times (halftone printing?)! The prints are still low res even when I change the doc to 300 pixels/inch. However when I print the same docs to my Canon IP4500 inkjet the prints come out perfect. I am not sure if its a problem with CS4 or a HP driver problem. The HP prints without problems from other packages such as MS Word.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi
It looks like a driver problem in Windows 7. I removed the HP PCL6 driver and replaced it with the built-in (but older) PCL5 driver in Windows 7 and it seems to have resolved the issue. I compared the two drivers and it seems that PCL6 does not have the 'Printer Features | Graphics Mode | Send Graphics As Vector' mode. This seems to be the crucial setting that allows high res bitmaped graphics and PDF's to be printed properly.
Thanks.

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