Printed quality of images is poor

Hi,
        We are trying to print water bills for one of our customers. This water bill contains a bar graph. We use a third party product (Chart Director) to produce a jpeg image of the graph. This image is converted to base 64 and written into a "dat" file and put through the Jetform Central. When we create a PDF the quality of the graph is good i.e., they grey inside the bars of the graph are even. But when printed on our production Xerox 180 printer, the grey inside the bars of the graph are pixelated and of poor quality.
         In fact, all images (which has grey scaling) embedded in the form produce pixelated images when printed.
         We use Jetform 5.5
Regards,
GM.

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