Printing with FF 4.0 is slow and generated print files are huge

I tried the RC and released versions of Firefox 4.0 and found the printer module(?) doesn't work as it did in version 3.x
If I print to my laser printer it generates each page slowly (I'm guessing it turns it into graphics) or if I print to a PDF file instead of being a few hundred kilobytes in size, the files are megabytes long.
Is there a way to make Firefox 4 print the way 3.x pronted? I downgraded to 3.6.16 and the problem went away. Other browsers also print normally.
I'm on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit.

I am having the same problem with FF 4.01. I have two computers, both newer Dell laptops with Win 7 pro. Both have the same printer drivers installed, including Cute PDF which in particular is what I'm having the problem with. One computer prints to Cute PDF perfectly fine, giving a reasonably small file as a result (e.g. this page here is 187kb as a PDF). The other computer produces enormous files (this same page is 1.1mb!!!). Both computers have all the latest Windows updates. On the computer which is producing the large PDFs, I tried numerous other PDF printing programs including Adobe Acrobat 9. All of them produce large files. This only happens in FF - IE and Chrome produce reasonably-sized files. (Chrome, incidentally, has the smallest file size!)
I love FF but I produce a lot of PDFs of a custom web application, and I can't do them in FF any more. *cough*Chromeworksbetterforthis*cough*
If I find a solution, I'll post it here.

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