Print Library - resolution dropped

Once upon a time the resolution of album art when using Print > Album listing was quite good. I don't print a paper copy, that would be wasteful, but sending it to a PDF distiller would result in a very nice looking file with clean, sharp album art.
With some latest version of iTunes (couldn't say exactly when this changed), printing an Album listing looks wretched. The text and iTunes-supplied graphics are fine, but the album art looks horrible. I have even tried printing one page direct from iTunes to an Epson R1800, looks as bad as the PDF output. Tweaked all my PDF settings (Press Quality with Optimize For Fast Web View turned off), no change.
So at some point iTunes started sending rotten resolution to the printer.
All my album art (with a couple of exceptions) looks fantastic in iTunes. I can scale Cover Flow quite large and they still look pretty good (and yes, I understand the difference between screen and print resolution). Most of the album art I found myself via image search or other websites - I try to stay around 600x600 dpi. So a 1.5" square tile on an Album listing printout should look fantastic.
What happened? I have old PDFs of old libraries that look great. Are those days over? Paperless society or not, I'd still like to be able to get a nice-looking PDF.

What format are these reports? If you are suing JDK 6, check out the java.awt.Desktop class. It uses your OS's supported functions to do options such as print, browse, mail, open, edit, etc.
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/desktop_api/

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