Colour issues when printing

Hi,
We have just installed a A3 HP Laserjet CP5225 printer. All is well apart from when printing PDFs from acrobat pro. For some reason greys are coming out green and other colours are off. When I print from the Preview App it prints fine so I am assuming its an Acrobat Pro issue. When the same document is printed from within acrobat reader on a windows machine it prints fine.
Any ideas? Is this a common issue with Acrobat Pro on OSX?
Cheers
Michael

First the the Driver for the Mac(s) up to date for the OS you are using. Is it possible to have it installed on the server if its going to be used on a network.
Some printers allow you to adjust the color through the Print Driver
example here with my Printer also a Hp but a inkjet instead.
Screenshot example: http://screencast.com/t/ZDM1NDI0
Note if you change this click on click standrd button and scroll down to bottom of page choose save as and give a name associated with acrobat
example Acrobat Color Balance shifted.
screenshot example: http://screencast.com/t/NTgwMmU4Njk
In this screenshoot I show all the different preset I have.
then when you need to print from Acrobat or Reader on the Mac.  you just choose the preset.

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