Printing issues CS6 on Mac 10.9 Mavericks

I have a strange problem which I am sure is something I am overlooking in settings.
Whenever I print from PS CS6, the printing process does what I would call a 'high quality image' type print, rather than a quick 'draft'.
Now, I don't know whether this is a Mavericks thing or not as I very rarely print from PS, and it could have been happening for months.
Even if I print a word of text, the printer - HP 5520 - does multiple carrier returns to produce the print, and printing a whole page can take a couple of minutes rather than a few seconds.

Still no-one able to help on this?
It's driving me crazy. I can't print from Photoshop because of this issue. I have to save everything to pdf and print from Illustrator.

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Normal use.
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