Word 2010 Printing Gray Instead of Black

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Word 2010 won’t print in black—prints gray instead. I’ve made sure the selected text in set black, I’ve checked and rechecked printer properties, etc., and have tried switching to gray-scale printing as well w/ the same result. I saved a test doc to rtf, opened in WordPad, printed and it came out black. Same deal with NotePad. So the problem seems to be in Word itself. I’ve tried Googling for fixes w/o success.
Word ver. 14.0.6112.5000 32-bit
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit
HP Deskjet 6122 (latest "replacement" driver)

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