PDFs and InDesign spooling but not printing

The printer is an Epson SP1400 connected via USB to a G3 iMac running 10.2.9 (ya, I know).
It is shared by 4 other Macs in the office of various configs, 3 running Tiger and one running Leopard. All have the same problem.
When using Adobe CS3 apps, files from Photoshop CS3 or Illustrator CS3 will print over the network to this shared printer. However, PDFs won't print from Acrobat Reader 7 or 8 or Acrobat CS3, nor will InDesign CS3 files print.
The same PDF files opened in Preview do print to this shared printer.
All other programs (Word, Excel, mail, browsers, Preview, TextEdit) all print to this shared printer.
Some of these PDF files are older archive files and are known to have printed when the operating system was Panther.
The permissions have been repaired on all machines and are repaired on a regular schedule along with the other routine maintenance. The printer queues have been reset and reloaded. The latest Epson driver was downloaded and is in use on all 5 machines. Epson blames Adobe, Adobe blames Epson, they both blame Apple. But no answers.
I will try reloading my CS2 apps to see if Acrobat and InD work there.
Meanwhile, any clues?

I have the exact same problem, except with a different printer... a Brother HL-4040cn. I am running CS3, connecting USB and also running 10.4.11. Any InDesign or PDF files briefly spool and then get dumped into the 'completed' files bin w/o printing. Any other app works fine.

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