Dashed Line Print Problem

I used the arch tool to create sine waves in Illustrator which are shown below. When the EPS is placed into Acrobat and the PDF is printed the ends of the dashed sine waves print as solid lines. I tried grouping each sine wave and that did not solve the problem. Does anyone have a solution?

Yeah, but you didn't put it in Quark where it goes on my end.
Keeping on topic here. Okay I tried several tests here. Upon placing the file into quark and producing a pdf from Quark is where I did see an issue. It appears as though somehow the spacing on the dots is getting funked up.
The workarounds that I have found is to either save as a pdf out of illustrator -OR- If it must be placed into Quark and then saved as a pdf (for whatever reason...and no I don't recommend) outlining the stroke in illustrator before sending through Quark.
FYI, I use CS 3 on MAC 10.5.7, Quark 6.52, Acrobat Pro 9.1.1, and HP Deskjet 6540

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To print Dashed line, either you can use
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I am using Illustrator CS and I draw a lot of origami diagrams.
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I would like to be able to start and end a line of whatever length and angle on a dash.
see link below;
http://www.itsjustabitofpaper.com/Dotted%20Line%20Problem.htm
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Okay, another (probably bad) suggestion: Make a new 'rich black' swatch and change all your problem objects to use the new swatch.
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And Peter responded while I was messing around. Lots of combinations.
Aaannnd.. perhaps I should have read the remainder of the posts instead of jumping into this... ^_~
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Albird wrote:
> The same MACINTOSH EPS that generates the weird PDF
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> solution for now.
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greg sahli wrote:
Please tell us the IP addresses of all computers and the settings in network prefs. You need to be our eyes and ears here - give us details, please.
Computer #1 - G5 Tower:
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Computer #2 - MacBook Pro
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