Prints garbage when printing from PDF

When I print from a PDF occasionally my 8500a Premium prints text in code. The format appears to be correct but the text prints in code. When I send the same PDF to another printer it prints fine. Please help.

If you can't select composite CMYK it means your printer isn't postscript, or you aren't using the postscript driver option if one is available.
Since this is a printer-related function, not a property of the file itself, you don't want to do anything to your pdf to compensate. That's the printer's job, if necessary, when he processes your PDF.

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