As near as I can tell, my printer preferences are the same as they have always been.

I have printed the original file using the default Windows spooler as .jpg and as .png with the same results. I have printed the file using Adobe Acrobat v9 Standard. All the prints look the same, i.e., terrible.

However... something I hadn't caught earlier. Zoom in on the print copy, and it appears to be very low resolution compared to the original file.

I think my next step will be to uninstall the printer and reinstall it, on the hope that somehow the default print driver has become corrupted.

tanstaafl.