Get "filter failed" error message when trying to print to HP LaserJet P1102w printer

So another year has gone by and I still can't print PDFs from Acrobat Pro despite may happy hours spent trying all of the sugested fixes. It seems utterly stupid that I have to send my PDFs to Preview in order to print them. It's been almost four years since I first started having this problem. 

How about applying some of that AI development time to solving a real world problem? 

Acrobat updated itself recently and I now have this "filter failed" problem. The "reset printers" approach outlined above did nothing to change the behavior. I am unable to print any PDF, which renders the program (and the whole idea of PDF's to some extent) rather useless for my purposes. Any solutions on the horizon?

Mac OS 14.0

Acrobat Build: 23.6.20380.0

HP Color LaserJet Pro M478f-9f

I had the same problem.  I tried many potential solutions, and nothing worked.

MacOS Ventura (latest/something or other)
HP Color Laserjet M653 - not exciting, but the error is printing an invoice.

Had this happen to a customer this morning.  After verifying that the issue only occurred when printing a PDF from Acrobat, not Preview.  Down the rabbit hole with color, .ICC, etc. but ultimately had a tray error pop up on the printer during some seemingly random interaction when testing.  At any rate, there was a checkbox to "Allow Acrobat to Choose Paper Source Based on Document" checkbox that, when ticked caused the error to go away.  When un-ticked back to "filter failed".  I suspect the error is in-fact with HP, but only when interfacing with the Acrobat printer outputs.

Hope this helps someone.

We had the same issue way back when. Our work around was to print using a generic driver, not hte specific HP driver. This was a known HP desktop printer issue at the time.

This issue exists for many years now (for me since 2019). It is very specific and only occurs while trying to print directly from Acrobat (printing from all other applications works fine). I am on macOS (curretnly Monterey 12.4, but same issue with many previous versions). I have also seen Windows users reporting this issue. My printer is a Brother MFC-9970CDW.

I have reported the issue many times and invested hours (if not days) trying to get it fixed, going through all suggested procedures - with no success so far. I suspect a corrupted / incompatible leftover file somewhere in the Acrobat installation. Adobe appears to have clean-up issues, see my report from 2018:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-no-longer-opening-files-with-macos-high-sierra-security-update/m-p/9818622#M99018

My previous reports (since 2019):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/failed-printing-pdf-documents-after-update-to-macos-catalina/m-p/11491356/page/2#M280528

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/cannot-print-any-pdf-file-macos-high-sierra-10-13-2-error-can-t-open-private-var-spool-cups-tmp/m-p/12424547/page/3#M331940

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/unable-to-print-pdf-files-using-acrobat-reader-dc-ver-2019-010-20098/m-p/12424582#M84042

Despite several reports, it appears that Adobe is unable/unwilling to systematicallly investigate the root cause of the issue (very unprofessional, very frustrating).

ADOBE, GET PROFESSIONAL - instead of instructing your customers to reinstall (and thereby wasting their time with this trial and error approch), pass this ever lasting issue to your engineering department for a professional root cause analysis and come back with an evidence based remediation procedure!!

(I am an engineer by myself, and I would be out of business if I would treat my customeers in this manner)

I am happy to work with engineering and provide any log files and other information if required.

Well, I reset the printer driver as suggested and all my drivers were deleted. Now I have to download and reinstall. Not helpful!!

For those seeing issues in late October 2020: The signs are that HP messed up with some of their printers in Mac, revoking the stuff that your printer driver needs to run (so, no need for you to update software, it just stopped!) https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/hp_printer_macos/

Hi there,

We are sorry for the trouble. As described you are getting the error message 'Stopped filter failed' when you try to print the PDF files from Acrobat DC.

As you have already tried removing the printer driver and firmware and reinstalling it without any success, please try to reset the printing system as described below and see if that works for you.

• Click the Apple menu icon, and then click “System Preferences”.
• Click “Printers and Scanner” / “Print and Scan” or “Print and Fax”.
• Right-click the blank space in the Printers list, and then click “Reset printing system”.
• Click “Reset” in the confirmation window.
• Enter an administrator username and password, and then click “OK”.
• Wait until the printing system is reset and no devices show in the Printers list

• Restart your computer and then go back to System preferences – Printers and scanners.
• Click the “Add button” (+).
• Find, and then select the name of your printer from the printer list, and then click “Add” to add your printer.
• Click “Print Using...”, and then select the name of your printer (By default “Airprint” would be selected)

Keep us posted with the result

Regards

Amal