Lines in a Illustrator-created PDF

I am having issues when some people print a PDF I created from Illustrator. It looks like the border around the page is going through the page diagonally. It does not appear like this when viewed as a PDF. This is a multi-page printout tiled 5 pages wide by 5 pages tall, taped together to form one image. The diagonal line begins at one corner and continues to the opposite corner of the assembled image. It only happens for a few people, not everyone. This person was printing with Win 7 and Adobe Reader XI V. 11.0.10 Any ideas what causes it or how to fix it? Thank you!

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From:
Raechel02 <[email protected]>
To:
Melanie Blank <[email protected]>
Date:
06/15/2011 09:34 AM
Subject:
Creating PDF in Word 2007 creates horizontal line
Melanie,
I read your post, and decided to spend my evening figuring out what was
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