Printing to laser printer looks terrible

Ever since PS CS3 I've noticed that when I print a 300 dpi grayscale image to my laser printer directly from Photoshop, it comes out as if a 72dpi benday screen had been applied. Never happened in earlier versions. I used to get excellent black-and-white print quality through Photoshop, just using the default settings.
I have 300 or 600 dpi grayscale images, usually with a lot of clean black lines. But whether I set to "printer manages colors" or "Photoshop manages colors", and no matter what profile I select, I get the same halftone (awful) result on my HP Deskjet 3330. The printer's settings are fine. If I print the same image from any other application, such as Quark or MS Word, the print quality is fine.
PS has always been a bit confusing to me regarding printing settings. Can someone tell me a way to get my 300-600 dpi images to print properly, without halftones applied?

Of course the first thing I did was check my printer settings. This is what baffles me. I have only one printer setting which I set up as default for all programs, including Photoshop. In CS2 and earlier versions, anything printed from Photoshop came out exactly like prints from any other app: 600dpi fine quality. But now (since CS3) ONLY Photoshop printouts come out in this 72 dpi halftone. Using the same default printer driver settings when printing from Flash, Word, Corel, Quark, IE, Firefox, I get fine quality printouts.
This is why I am asking for advice! Obviously there is a setting within Photoshop that I am doing wrong. Probably something obvious.
Please treat me like I'm stupid. How do you 'check halftone settings in Photoshop'? is that dot gain? I have print settings for 'grey dot gain 20%', which is what I've seen it set at since I started using Photoshop 3.

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