I am using PS Cs4.

My printer is HPC5580 and is set to "presentation - best"

The paper is smooth card stock 110 lb. Have tried index and copy paper with no change in quality.

PS is set to Working CMYK and Perception.

I have printed out one sheet with Smooth, Crisp, Sharp and Strong type in 14 pt Arial. Smooth is the best but pretty lousy.

Word documents and other software print excellent quality so I don't think it is the printer. It is also a few weeks old.

This is a presentation document so the type needs to be vg or ex quality. Is this possible with PS CS4?

I have used this printer with Word and other programs and the type is sharp and clean.

I am not sure if PS is set correctly or if I am missing anything. Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.

Have you tried saving to .eps and distilling to PDF, then printing the pdf ? You'd need Acrobat Pro, not reader to do this. If you have Acrobat and save the file as an .eps you will get the option to retain vector info. The text will be vector if you don't rasterize it. If you apply layer styles to the text it will be rastered.

Found the answer. I did not set the DPI amount in the original page set-up. So: I changed the image size amount from 72 to 200 and it worked out fine.

Thanks.