Acrobat 9.5.4 - garbled printout

Although it used to work fine, now parts of certain Metastock files printed as PDF files, mostly numbers in columns, are garbled as though they are encoded. I have removed Adobe Lean Print and reinstalled Acrobat 9.5.4 Pro but still have the same problem. These files print O.K. on a hard copy printer. Metastock software tech support says it may be a bad printer driver. What do you think and suggest? Thanks SW

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1162835?tstart=0

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