11x17 Printing Issues with Acrobat version 8.2.3

I'm using Acrobat version 8 on Windows Vista here at work and both myself and a coworker can't print 11x17 pages. We've ruled out printer issues, as 11x17 pages will print from other programs. For a while, I was able to work around this problem by opening the PDF in Illustrator and printing it 11x17 from there. But as of today, none of my Adobe programs will print in 11x17 at all. This is a big issue as I often need to print technical drawings for equipment manuals and those need to be on 11x17 paper.
Has anyone else had this problem or something similar? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You haven't mentioned anything about your printing environment. Are you printing to a photocopier via a computer interface? Or is this an inkjet printer or a laser printer? Have you selected the appropriate tray for 11x17? Have you tried "print according to PDF paper size"? (I don't actually remember the exact wording of that setting)

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