Older LaserJet printers compress PDF when printing

When I print a PDF to both a newer (LJ 4250) and an older (LJ 4m) LaserJet, the older LaserJet compresses the PDF vertically, even though page scaling is turned off. I'm trying to print a PDF of data onto a preprinted form, and the compression is causing alignment issues. Thoughts or solutions?

It might be your printer settings rather than adobe reader. When you get the dialog box up have a look at the prefernces next to your printer selection and make sure they are what you need. E.g. if your printer thinks it's printing out on a different paper size it my change the dimentions of the print out.

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Firmware data 20140123
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When printing pdf files from Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat or FoxIt the grey background appears on the paper. The content of the file is printed normally. Printing from the other sources (Word, Excel, NotePad) is OK
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Hello,
If your PC works on Windows XP, then you might try downloadin the hotfix available @ Microsoft.
Url :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971250
Regards,
Jabzi
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Click "Accept as Solution" if it solved your problem, so others can find it.
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We recently upgraded to EP7.
I have an end user that does our PO's.
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She is set to PDF Preview when doing a print preview of the PO.
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How did you fix 'page cannot be displayed' error?
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Preview suck!!! Please for your own sanity use acrobat to edit PDF. Get it from adobe.com

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Hello
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Hello there,
Thanks for posting. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you're in the wrong forum; this is the forum for questions specific to Acrobat.com (www.acrobat.com), and we are not able to help with questions about other Adobe products and services. If you're using Adobe Reader free software, I recommend posting to the Reader forum, where your questions is more likely to get a helpful response:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/adobe_reader_forums
Sorry not to be of more help! Good luck.
Best,
Rebecca

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Hello there,
Thanks for posting. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you're in the wrong forum; this is the forum for questions specific to Acrobat.com (www.acrobat.com), and we are not able to help with questions about other Adobe products and services. If you're using Adobe Reader free software, I recommend posting to the Reader forum, where your questions is more likely to get a helpful response:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/adobe_reader_forums
Sorry not to be of more help! Good luck.
Best,
Rebecca

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This is my first post so please excuse any ignorance.
Basically we are in the process of creating electronic copies of SOP’s and putting them on our file server for all staff to access. Due to regulations, when these SOP’s are printed they would need to have the current date and time in which the SOP was printed, ideally like a watermark faded diagonally across the page but even if it was something on the bottom or top this would also do the trick.
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GKaiseril
Thank you so much, I got it and it worked perfect courtesy of "hardDriver2". For anybody else who is looking to do this see below.
// Description: This script adds a text field to the left side of all
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We have the exact same problem with an interactive report in Apex 3.2. The CSV export works fine, but the PDF file only shows the header.
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Correction I would like to save as PDF/A-1b
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Older LaserJet printers compress PDF when printing

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