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_jack_grimes_
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December 30, 2006
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Acrobat 8 printing problems

  • December 30, 2006
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duplex printing of a pdf file on either an hp 1320n or hp4300n, with OS X 10.4.8. Using several pdf fIles with odd number of pages, the last (odd) page is printed backwards and upside down. Every time.
If I print just the last page, it is printed backwards and upside down.
If I quit Acrobat 8, launch A8, and then print the last page, it prints correctly. This would seem to eliminate the printing subsystem.

single (no duplex printing) printing, two pages per page (print dialog box option), of a pdf file. First page (original first/second page) prints OK, subsequent pages printed backwards and upside down. (Also after a relaunch of A8).

MacBook Pro 17, OS X 10.4.8, 2G RAM, A8 version 8.0.0 (initial release)
What is going on? Can anyone repeat this behavior?
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    _Debbie_Mitchell_
    Participant
    June 4, 2008
    The only work-around that appears to help is under Print set up click on advanced settings then check the box "print as image"

    See if that works.

    This is very frustrating and I am a bit dismayed that as long as this problem has been reported it continues with NO good solution from either Adobe or HP.

    Deb
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    _Crystal_A_
    Participant
    June 4, 2008
    Hi

    I am on a PC and cannot print PDFs from Adobe 8. It says it is printing and the little "Printing now" icon will come up, but nothing happens and regardless of the actual size of the document, the icon always read "1 page printed." My printer is the HP LaserJet 1320n. It prints fine from Word, the internet, etc., just not PDFs.

    Any help?

    Thanks!
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    _Harvey_Cogen_
    Participant
    March 13, 2008
    Same problem - cannot print 2-up 2-sides. iMac24, OS 10.4.11, Reader 8.1.2, 3gb ram, 200+GB disk space. 292 page document. Prints perfectly from Preview. System is new and I am not going to re-install anything. Tried printing from page 2 instead of 1 and it looks like it works, but I cannot reprint the entire 292 page document as a test. After suffering with the mirror-image printouts, I thought Adobe might have actually fixed all their printing issues, but I was wrong.
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    _Deb_Iper_
    Participant
    March 6, 2008
    I had the same problem. I installed my HP printer
    with the generic postscript driver and then I could
    print with Acrobat Pro
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    _Huub_
    Participant
    February 22, 2008
    ===> duplex pages print upside down

    Yes, it's a known issue. To solve it you must disable the 'auto-rotate and center' function in the print menu and setup your page correctly (printer/size/orientation) in the page setup menu.

    This issue affects both Acrobat Pro 8.1.x and Acrobat Reader 8.1.x

    ===> not printing / extremely slow printing

    Acrobat Pro 8.1.x. prints irradicate. With times going up to 5 minutes for a simple text page it is unmanageble. Also print file sizes are different each time. My solution so far is to use AcrPro for everything but printing and uses AcrReader for printing purposes only.
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    _Huub_
    Participant
    February 22, 2008
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    _JdJ_1
    Participant
    February 21, 2008
    What about not being able to print at all from Acrobat 8?? Has anybody experienced that problem?

    We are running OS 10.4.11 on pre-intel G5's, and printing to either a HP 5500 laserjet, or to an Epson Stylus Pro 4800 - as far as i can remember, no matter the source of the .pdf nothing will print from Acrobat Prof (8.0). Nothing... Luckily we still have Acrobat 7 still installed on our systems...

    Thanks for any advice!

    JJ
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    _Huub_
    Participant
    February 21, 2008
    I'm also having the same problems on PPC 10.4.11 / Acrobat Pro 8.1 on any (PS) printer

    The solution: don't use Acrobat Pro, but Acrobat Reader to print your files.
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    _Debbie_Mitchell_
    Participant
    February 15, 2008
    Try printing as an "image". This works for PC (windows xp) to HP printers with same problem all pages print
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    _Thomas_Norrgård_
    Participant
    February 15, 2008
    Weird problem on one of my machines here. Intel iMac running 10.4.11 and Acrobat 8.1.2. When printing PDF files with multiple pages and selecting "Print All Pages", only the first page prints. If I select "Pages 2-n" where n is the last page, they all print fine. If I select 1-n, only the first page prints. The same documents print fine on other machines in Acrobat, and on the same machine in Preview. Consistent across printers. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat with no luck. Very weird

    edit: for info, the printers are Canon iR 3170C and Canon IPR C1 with the latest drivers.
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