Acrobat 8 printing problems

A little update - Acrobat 8 is still a piece of garbage on any Xerox print driver in 10.4.9, but we found a fix for at least one problem.
Pages were printing with the margins cut off, like they were cropped. To stop that you have to go to Page Setup and select the printer and pick the page size. Printing on Letter size will then work.
But if we try to print on, say, 12x18 stock, the image crops down to 8.5x11 and prints in the middle of the page. Goes for all Xerox printers, including our brand-new iGen.
Who needs the hassle of a print menu when you can just copy the file to a disk and carry it over to the printer, open it and print it from the RIP. And while carrying that disk, we have something to do while a crashed Acrobat is restarting.
We're real close now - to going back to Acrobat 7.

Same issue happening here as stated by M Ling. Displays fine on the screen but when you print, it prints black blobs and/or a big striped area. Anyone have a solution?

Same thing is happening to me in Illustrator CS3. I got frustrated and went back to CS2.

Exporting CAD (mcd) files to pdf (Acrobat 8.1) on Mac OS 10.4.10.
PDFs appear fine on the screen.
Printing pdfs to any printer or plotter - the patterns (crosshatches, stipples) print out as black blobs. Have tried printing same pdf file from Windows pcs and to various plotters and printers - same problem.
No problem printing or plotting the root file. Only have problem printing an exported to pdf file.

Is this an issue with Acrobat 8?

10.4.9, all updates applied BTW.

-JS

Printing problems here with Acrobat Pro 8.1

When I print a PDF it looks as though it is going through, but never gets to the printer. If I do the exact same thing in Acrobat Pro 7, it works perfect.

-JS

As Cindy stated above, The update corrected the upside down and mirrored problem on my iMac Intel 2Core Duo with my HP 2605dn. I have, however, changed PDFs to open in Preview because Acrobat takes forever to print. It works for me until Adobe gets this fixed.

After receiving the prompt from Adobe Updater, I quit all other applications before clicking on the link to download the update to Acrobat 8.1. Installation went without a hitch. I have used duplex printing on a couple of documents since. The duplex printing problem disappeared. All pages came out in the correct direction, with or without scaling. (MacBook, OS X 10.4.9, HP Laserjet 1200)

We also find that Acrobat 8 Pro on MacOSX has printing problems. It will not print Acrobat 7 or earlier documents. Also, although the update to 8.1 may help, the update does not install. Apparently, it prompts the user to keep reinstalling with infinite recursion.

I got the same message about Safari, (even though it had quit) but when I continued, the install ran and completed anyway. A8.1 now works fine. The 2 problems I originally identified have been fixed -- duplex printing of an odd number of pages and the 2 pages/page reverse printing.

One possible work around is to reboot (then Safari isn't running for sure) and then try the install.

I also continue to run A7, which I didn't uninstall. They both run without interferring with each other. With A8, after an OCR, I found that I couldn't properly copy an image, so I used A7 for that purpose. I haven't tested A8.1 to see if they fixed this problem as well.
--jack