Tylor, perhaps you should try a different brand of laser paper. It's been a trick in the graphics world for well over a decade now to use laser paper in an inkjet for the highest quality printing. Laser paper is smooth because there are fewer and smaller pores in it.
The more pores you have in paper, the more the ink will run into them, which makes it lose clarity.
Generally, unless it's cheap crappy laser paper, you'll get a much sharper print. I use weyerheuser myself, and it always works just fine.
I should add that you CAN get even higher quality prints off of photo paper rather than laser paper. . .but with photo paper at around $1 per sheet, I'm stickin' with laser paper
