How to control "Adobe PDF" Printer?

Hello Everyone,
     We have a designed a large crystal report containing around 270 pages with lots of high quality images related to properties available for sale. When we try to export this report to PDF after exporting 20-50 pages (depending on the system resources available) it fails with a out of memory error ( occurs with all PDF printers like PDFCreator, Adobe PDF, etc). This error is due to a limitation of crystal reports to handle a large number of images.
     As a workaround, I tried exporting the pages of a crystal report 1 after another into a temp folder and then merged them together. I could easily do this with PDFCreator. But our client has purchased a ADOBE Acrobat X Pro edition and insists on using the same. By default he has the "Adobe PDF" printer default settings (Adobe PDF->Adobe PDF Settings Tab -> Default Settings combo) set to "Standard" print quality.
     Since I will be printing the crystal report page by page. I provide the user a custom print dialog (c#) to accept the settings he desires. When the client selects the "High Quality Print" job option, I would like to print all 270 pages one after another into a specified folder and then merge them together and provide him a save dialog to move the file to the location he desires. I would then like to revert the "Adobe PDF Printer" back to its old settings.
    Is there any way to achieve this? I have been looking at the ADOBE registry keys using process monitor but somehow it seems that the settings are just getting saved here. Changing the registry keys does not reflect in "Adobe PDF" when I go to the printing preferences.
     Any help will be truly appreciated
From,
Patrick.

Thank you for your suggestions.
@TestScreenName : Yes, I have downloaded the Adobe SDK Library
@Irosenth : Only specific users have permissions to print these large reports and they will do it on their local machines wherein they each have a full version of Adobe Acrobat. I had seen the silent printing option and understand it. I am more concerned however with the following as seen in my original post
"  Since I will be printing the crystal report page by page. I provide the user a custom print dialog (c#) to accept the settings he desires. When the client selects the "High Quality Print" job option"
My question here is if the user selects any print settings in the custom dialog where (registry?) & how do I set it so that the Adobe PDF printer  detects the option selected. Is there any API provided  for the same? After printing all the pages I will have to reverts the settings of the printer.

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