Dangit

I hate my technical inexpertise. 10 years ago I knew a lot about computers. I could run the heck out of a 486 processor, Windows 3.1 and DOS too. But technology has completely passed me by. Last night I bought a Canon iP90 inkjet printer, which is supposed to be way good. The sample pictures looked great and the guy assured me my piddly Word documents would come out crystal clear. I just printed some stuff in Word and it's not impressing me. When you look close you can see smudges on all the letters and straight lines look pretty bad too. My office-mate's old crusty HP laserjet prints way better than this. His docs have 0 smudge. Worthy of being filed in a reputable place of business. My stuff looks like crap. Well, not crap, but definitely not crisp and clear. I think there's probably a setting that I need to tweak to tell it to print high quality, maybe? I tried Draft Output and it wasn't any better. Surely this $250 printer doesn't suck this bad. I don't think I screwed anything up putting in the print head and ink cartridges. Argh...