InDesign CS3 Print PDF (page printed shifted 0.125 downward)

Hi,
I'm currently using CS3. Everytime I print the booklet/catalog to pdf file, the whole document seems to be shifted down .125in in the printed pdf file. The files looks fine when I view in preview mode in InDesign, it only does it when I print pdf. Does anyone have solutions to the problem?
Heidi

Looking at the print dialogs, it appears to me that the problem is you are trying to print bleeds on the same size sheet as the document page.
What you are seeing in the preview is the result of selecting "upper left" positioning and including the bleed, which is pushing the page image down and to the right by the amount of the bleed. You need to print bleeds on oversize stock and trim. To do that accurately you'll want to include trim marks, too. If printing two sides it's also essential to set the positioning to centered (and don't even try this on an inkjet printer with uneven non-printing margins). Don't expect miracles from digital printers for side-to-side position registration on two sided prints. They just aren't that accurate.
I'm not familiar with your Sharp printer, but my guess is that if you have a border on the right side of the print it's because of the non-imaging area on the page (only a few printers are capable of printing all the way to the edge, and, as far as I know, they scale the image to do so, and would not be a good way to print books with bleeds).
That doesn't answer the question of why you'd have a white edge printing to PDF. The answer to that seems to be in the Acrobat display settings. In Acrobat, Edit > Preferences > Page Display and uncheck the box for "Use 2D Graphics Acceleration" and I think the white line will disappear.
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