Adobe PDF printer Resolution

Hi:
I am going to be deploying Adobe Acrobat 9 to my organization. Due to our print requirements, I need to set the PDF Printer Resolution to 600 DPI, it's default value is 1200 dpi.
I need to know which registry key needs to be changed.
I can only find one under AVGeneral called iprintDPI but changing this does nothing to the PDF printer resolution. I have changed the resolution in the driver manually to 600 dpi and this key is not updated.
If this can not be done in the registry, is there another way around it?
Thank you,

Just to close off on this thread, I found the setting in the registry.
HKey_Current_user\Printers\DevModePerUser
change the hex value for Adobe PDF setting
and
HKey_Current_user\Printers\DevModes2
change the hex value for Adobe PDF setting
Hope this helps others with the same issue...

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