Problem printing to Epson FX 890 impact printer

InDesign CS3 5.0.2
Windows Vista 32-bit edition
4G RAM
Epson FX 890 Impact Printer
I have an Epson 9 pin dot matrix printer installed which is used to fill in 4 part carbonless forms. I've used it for years with Pagemaker with no problem, but when I installed a new computer with Vista and InDesign there's a problem with the print quality.
The characters look very grainy, like all of the pins are not hitting. It is a networked printer but is wired into the new computer. All other programs on the computer, including Pagemaker, print to it fine, and InDesign prints to a networked Canon laser and a hardwired Epson inkjet with no problem. I've tried different fonts and sizes and they all print grainy.
I thought it might have something to do with the "Appearance of Black" settings under Preferences ie: 100K Black vs Rich Black but have not been able to affect it with the different settings there.
Any help will be appreciated.

The only Vista driver offered by Epson for this printer is for Vista 32 bit OS and that's the one I'm using. To print in PDF you would just save the finished document to PDF format and then open and print that document in Adobe Reader?

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