Native printer driver (Mac)

I have a mac laptop which uses a Xerox driver with department accounting which pops up a prompt asking for a department number every time a job is printed.  This driver works perfectly in any other program, but when I print with adobe reader, it doesn't display the prompt and tried to print with no department ID, which fails when it gets to the printer since this is required.  From what I can tell acrobat tries to override most of the print driver settings itself, which is most likely what's causing this.  I even tried the "Print as Image" option, but had the same problem.  Is there any way to get Acrobat to completly use the native OS printer driver instead of its custom one which doesn't seem to support the Xerox accounting feature?
Thanks.
Darren

Hi,
you can try to exchange your "pstops" file by the one from 10.5.4 as described in:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1715794&tstart=0#8157481
At least this fixed a similar problem in my case which appeared with 10.5.5 (or the latest HP printer driver update - I am not sure, because I installed both updates at quite the same time).
Best regards,
Steffen

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