Problems printing pdf

First off, its not the printer.  Everything else (from pages to pictures to html etc) prints with no problems.
Whenever I print a pdf (either self created or sent to me by someone else) it prints out very blurry. 
or if there is any sort of watermark or lite background etc they print out black; completely obscuring everything else.
I dont know if somewhere along the line I changed my Adobe print settings or something. 
Does this sound familiar to anyone?  Any ideas how to fix/change this?
Thank you ahead of time for any help.

Print as Image means That instead of saving as PDF Text document. your saving as a image or picture/Graphic.
Go to Print menu  > click on advanced options.
It means what its says your saving as a Picture and as picture you can no longer edit.
However, it will clear up some strange problems that crop up from time to time. one famous problem that woul crop up every time HP would update a Driver for my printer with Days Adobe would come out with an up date that would cause the PDF to show as tight diagonal lines. They only cure was to save as image until HP would up date the driver. It would last about two weeks when adobe would come out with a new up day which would screw it up again.  Thankfully them days are long over (at least with my current Printer).

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