Color PDFs only print in Greyscale

I'm having trouble getting colour PDFs to print correctly. No matter what printer settings I use I only get a greyscale rendering on the printer. It looks fine on screen. Other apps print in color on the printer OK. I'm not sure when this problem occurred, it worked OK with previous versions of Adobe Reader up to about 3 months ago.
System here is: Windows XP SP3, Adobe Reader 11.0.3, Canon MG3150 Inkjet multifunction device.

No, I made sure that all boxes for grayscale were unchecked. Checked or unchecked it prints the same.

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