@exibar wrote:
maybe I'm confusing things by saying fuzzy... it's more jagged, blocky... I took a picture...
Yes, actually the entire label has been rendered as an image. This in itself is not a flaw in the process, because it enables a printer to render typefaces and special fonts that it does not have on board and which are not downloaded with the document to be printed. Instead, the document is rendered as a picture, and then the printer simply prints the picture. You can see the horizontal scan lines, something like the raster display of an old tube-type TV set. The big "F" looks good because it's all thick straight lines and sharp corners, but the thinner and smaller text and graphics are suffering.
The problem isn't so much that the label was rendered as an image, but that it's such a coarse image. It needs to be rendered at a much finer dpi (dots per inch) setting, because that low-resolution dpi seen in your example doesn't maintain the sharp detail needed for things like bar codes or very light type.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about your specific print process to offer much advice, except to say that if you do see any options for print resolution that seem to have low settings (such as 150 dpi), boost them to 600 dpi and see if that improves things. Also, if your printer is in any kind of Draft or ink-saving mode, cancel that out and go for higher quality printing instead.
