PDF attachment fails to print from Outlook

Hello,
Our company is using Outlook 2010 Professional Plus and Adobe Reader 10.1.12. We have been having an issue where certain users (seemingly random) are unable to print PDF documents directly from Outlook. There are no errors and the printing options box populates, but nothing is sent to the printer. This is happening on many different printers with different models and makes. The work around we have found is to save the attachment out to the desktop and print from there, however we would like to get to the bottom of this issue.
Thank you for any advice in advance.
-Ross

Hi rosszip,
Are you still facing this issue?
If you save the attachment to computer and then try to print with Adobe Reader, are you able to print.
It might be the issue with the user level access.
Regards,
Ajlan Huda.

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