Terrible print quality in Photoshop CS4 -- everything prints halftoned

Ever since installing Photoshop CS4, anything printed from within Photoshop comes out on paper looking halftoned (even though it looks normal onscreen). No other program (including previous version of Photoshop) has this problem.
Below I have included scans of an image printed from Photoshop CS4 and also from Illustrator CS4.
As an example, I drew something fast at 300 dpi in Autodesk Sketchbook, pasted that it into Photoshop, printed from within Photoshop, and it came out on paper looking halftoned. I then saved the .PSD from within Photoshop, placed that into Illustrator CS4 and printed the same image from within Illustrator. It printed on paper exactly as it looked onscreen (i.e., normally). I then scanned both results and placed them side-by-side to show what I'm getting from the printer.
http://www.hotcrayon.com/adobe/002/photoshop-cs4-printing-halftones.jpg
Lest anyone think it has something to do with the images themselves, I don't believe this can be the problem since everything printed from within Photoshop comes out this way. It prints vector artwork this way, high-res images too.. everything prints halftoned.
However, when I take the same images and print them from any other graphics program, they print normally.
Any help would be much appreciated!

I'm having the same half-tone print problem. However, when I print from Bridge I get a high quality print with no half-tones. Any Ideas? Thanks, Jonathan.

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First a definition:
- Half-tone: this is a gray scale printing process that is required for an printer that can print only Black & White. It allows a B&W printer to be able to appear to have the ability to print grayscale. The higher the printer resolution, the less noticeable the half-tone dots or dithering will be.
The problem with Photoshop CS4 seems to be that, when you use it's print option, it's half-tone is very coarse and does not reflect the resolution capability of the destination printer, in my case, a LaserJet4. If I take the same print and print it from Bridge CS4, the half-tone is correct for the resolution of the printer and the print looks great. Also, from Photoshop CS4, if you do a save-as a .pdf and then print the .pdf, the print looks great, as well.
Keep in mind that the printer driver settings (which there are few) have not been changed during this testing.
My conclusion is that the problem is with Photoshop CS4 print option and I cannot find anyway in Photoshop to change the half-tone settings there. Further, if I use the exact same print with the exact same printer settings, it will print correctly from other graphics programs.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. In my lab, most of the printing is B&W for court exhibits and such.
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Ok. But the printer works correctly if I do a save-as .pdf and print the
pdf. Or do the same from Bridge. So, how can it be the printer or printer
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Right click > Open Image in new tab – click to magnify.
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My questions are: Does the PSD file have the printer information encoded?
Also why has this just started to show up? My wife has work successfully under the same conditions, files moved and printed on different printers, with no problems in the past.
I (we) have been struggling with a recent problem trying to print PSD files from Photoshop CS4. (Vista 32 bit, Epson 3880 networked) When trying to print certain, but not all, PSD files I get the message: "Before you can perform printer-related tasks such as page setup or printing a document, you need to install a printer." I have been in contact with Adobe support about the issue but with little in the way of positive results. I was referred to a kb link: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/409/kb409119.html Tried all that to no avail. (The first suggestion is absurd to the point of making me wonder what process is used to construct the kbs. You cannot open the print menu when you get this message so....?)
Other solutions are not acceptable for the work my wife is doing, editing high quality photographs for an exhibition with test prints and so on. We are under intense time pressue with four shows coming up in a very short time. The final solution offered is that CS5 has solved all of this. Hum? interesting. No comment except new program, new problems so not a real solution for us.
In searching the web about this problem I have come across many other people with the same problem working from different platforms and even different Adobe products. I noticed that the MAC OS seemed to cause the same problem and that there was a problem with Reader and Acrobat. In every case the problem is never solved by Adobe or anyone else and users find some "workaround". I too have found what we hope is a workaround in our contiued travels on the blogosphere, on flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/wellington/discuss/72157621548183001/ as "...a nasty, nasty solution" but we skipped the flatten part and the GIMP part and resave the PSD under a different name.
Adobe does seem supportive but not that interested (CS4 right) but I would like to find a real solution and I think many people would benefit from it.
Anyway what I have found is that the PSD files that will not print have been printed on another printer at some time in the past. In my case the Printer was an Epson Artisan A50. The printer we are using now is the Epson Stylus Pro 3880. Even when trying to print wirelessly to the 3880 from the laptop (Was Vista, now Windows 7) that was used to edit and print with the A50, (USB connection) we saw the same error. So it seems that the printer information is somehow embedded in the PSD file (also mentioned in a Blog) and is keeping PS from seeing the printer because the same printer is not there.
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I know this is a long post but I have been working on this problem and have heard all of the pat and frankly useless answers and workarounds. Can we find a solution and fix the problem?

Tech support put me on hold for about 30 minutes to 'look up my serial number'. When he came back he started saying he did find my serial nu..... and he hung up. I had already given him my callback number. Yet he never called me back when we were 'disconnected'. There is no excuse for him not calling me back. I have no reason to believe this was anything other than intentional avoidance of the problem. Before he started looking up my serial number, he told me that Photoshop didn't support working with files on a network drive (???). He also told me that even if it was found to be an actual defect in the product, I still owed the $39. The $39 was "not for finding the defect... it was for the technician's time.... (???) Where do they find these people to answer the phones?
Sorry about the venting... I'm just losing money by the day, and I get to pay for these kinds of moronic statements.
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1) I complete a PSD file and save it
2) I print it on one of the printers accessible by that machine
3) I then try to close the PSD, but it says the 'file has changed' The ONLY thing that has changed is that I PRINTED it. So you can't tell me PS is not saving at least something about the printing task in the file
4) If I say 'no' to the save-after-print question, I can go to another computer, open the same file and print with no problem
5) If I say 'yes' to the save-after-print question, and I go to another computer and try to print the file, I get the "In order to perform printing tasks you must define a printer" message
6) This scenario applies to any machine. Once I hit 'save' after printing, that PSD can now never be printed on any other machine other than that one.
7) And this is a user problem (???)
Somebody please tell me:
1) why PS marks a file 'changed' and requires saving after doing nothing other than printing it if it is not saving printer history/setup in the file?
2) Why I can print the PSD from any computer with PS installed as long as I don't do a save after printing from one, but as soon as I do a save after print, the file is basically locked permanently to that one machine forever?
Right... and they want a minimum of $39 to tell me a) this is a user problem, b) Photoshop doesn't support files on a shared network drive; c) "...NO.... we don't save printer information in the file, and d) get hung up on with no callback.
I have 40 years of experience in software architecture and development. I know enough to know a little bit about how these things work. And I also have been around long enough to recognize intentional denial of a product defect by the support team.

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