Printed Text is Small with Mail.app in Lion

Has anyone been able to adjust the font size of the PRINT in Mail while using Lion? I swear I feel stupid, but I can't seem to adjust this all.
I have to print out an email and the text is soooo small. It's like 3pt. Adjusting the message view font in prefs doesn't change a thing, nor does changing the print options like "Scale to Fit", "Rewrap Message to Fit", "Keep the Same Apparent Font Size", etc.
I have the conversation view selected, but I opened a single email as well, and it ALWAYS prints like 3pt making the text unreadable.
I finally had to forward the email to gmail and print from gmail. Sad.
Any ideas on how to adjust the PRINT font size only?

Yes, I tried this as well.
If I increase the scale to let's say 400%, it does increase the font size, but makes the text no longer appdear on one page. It will change the flow of the text so that half a sentence on the right is cut off, and the remaining text is on the next page.
In other words, it doesn't work.
Just in case this helps, I'm printing to a HP 4240n, but I don't think that would be it.
Even saving to a PDF in the print dialog causes the same issue.
Does anyone print emails from Mail.app in Lion? Am I the only one?

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