Acrobat Reader Prints Strange Characters

The Reader prints files in a strange character encoding which looks like nothing - )*&#$@^(%)&%@#?><{::} and characters you cannot find on your keyboard. When printing from other PC's it's working perfectly. It does that with all languages and all PDF files.
Here is a scanned result of the printing:
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http://www.hotshare.net/image/100994-1898931441.html

busoppreviews: As I have written before - I have a printer connected to PC via USB, there is no network involved, only mechanically moving laptops.
PS Why on earth I can't reply on these forums using Firefox?

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In the last week or so I have had two separate instances of folks having trouble printing large documents from Adobe Reader X. Both were printing to HP Printers, one an officejet connected via USB and another a networked LaserJet. The first few pages of the document would print fine but then the rest of the document prints strange characters. A second attempt to print the document generally succeeds, leading us to believe that it may just take some time for the program to "fill out" the file or something. Has anyone else experienced problems like this with Acrobat recently?

Yes I have a computer in our office that is pluged into a HP Laserjet 2015 and it is doing the same thing when printing from pdf's. After some testing I have gotten it to repete the messed up/strange characters. It seems that it will mess up everytime you print and then close out of the file, even tho it has spooled the print, and the printer is not finished printing. But if you leave the file open for the duration of the print, even tho it is spooled, it will print fine without messing up. Still looking into why this is doing this, it does not matter what PCL printer driver that I have tried for it... I have not tried using a PS driver yet.

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Whenever I print using Acrobat reader default characters print as garbage, even when printing using "Print as Image". Print preview looks fine but printer page shows mostly garbage characters. For example, when printing the Sunday Crossword puzzle from the Washington Post the numbers in the gird print fine but the clues and things like Across and Down headers print with garbage characters. This happens regardless of whether the document is printed from the Reader directly or from within a browser. I've used IE8, Firefox and Chrome and get the same result. The same problem exists regardless of which of my 3 printers I use (HP1020, HP Photosmart 8250, Brother MFC-3740W). Same type of problem happens regardless of what pdf file I try to print. Print preview always looks fine. Printing the same files from my other PC comes out with no problem. The problem system is running Windows 7 64-bit and problem only started recently, things used to print fine.

In the meantime you will likely find that the fonts are not embedded or you are not sending them to the printer. Reader has not been called Acrobat Reader since version 5. The name was changed to just Adobe Reader to avoid this confusion. Acrobat is the full product with a $$ value to purchase.

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Thanks for taking the time to reply. It's interesting that this problem only manifests itself in certain applications. A friend installed a program called CuteWriterPDF and the applications that I was having difficulty with writing PDF files are taken care of perfectly with this small program. It was just an experiment but it worked. This is not a perfect fix as I would prefer a solution from Adobe but at least I'm back up and running.
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When i print a pdf from preview it prints strange characters - it looks fine on screen

when i print a pdf from preview it prints strange characters - it looks fine on screen

You can also try opening the PDF with preview, then doing a copy and paste to TextEdit and printing from there.
Adobe makes it easier, but you do have software to accomplish this.
Only download Adobe reader from this site, to avoid "fakes/spoofs/malware" that will cause damage to your machine.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?platform=macintosh&product=10
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Reader printing garbage characters

Whenever I print using Acrobat reader default characters print as garbage, even when printing using "Print as Image". Print preview looks fine but printer page shows mostly garbage characters. For example, when printing the Sunday Crossword puzzle from the Washington Post the numbers in the gird print fine but the clues and things like Across and Down headers print with garbage characters. This happens regardless of whether the document is printed from the Reader directly or from within a browser. I've used IE8, Firefox and Chrome and get the same result. The same problem exists regardless of which of my 3 printers I use (HP1020, HP Photosmart 8250, Brother MFC-3740W). Same type of problem happens regardless of what pdf file I try to print. Print preview always looks fine. Printing the same files from my other PC comes out with no problem. The problem system is running Windows 7 64-bit and problem only started recently, things used to print fine.

In the meantime you will likely find that the fonts are not embedded or you are not sending them to the printer. Reader has not been called Acrobat Reader since version 5. The name was changed to just Adobe Reader to avoid this confusion. Acrobat is the full product with a $$ value to purchase.

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The document: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/71fb561e-78a2-44ae-8bd6-9df6520e9d1b
The box I was talking about is the very last one.
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