Print PDF weird characters

I've got an Imac model begin 2012 and mountain lion installed and since a few weeks the following problem error.
PDF files i get from my insurance company and other companies look allright in preview but when i want to print them on my hp printer most of the text are strange ascii characters. It must be an bug because my father has allso an Imac and ML installed and he has the same issue with pdf files printing on his canon printer. We tried pdf files he gets from a different company.
Is this an known issue and does anyone has a solution for this problem?

I tried Adobe reader and it works now the document is printed correct.
I only get the error "SymbolMT is missing" but when i say still printing it prints correct.
Problem i've got whit this solution is that preview is not working anymore for me and i have to use adobe reader......

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