Preview: Export to PDF sends document to Printer

Problem: In preview, when I export anything to PDF, it is instead sent to my printer. I'm using Mavericks. This suddenly started happening for no apparent reason having worked fine previously. Help anyone please!

Lex - When I do as you suggest "Print-PDF-SaveAsPDF" I still have a problem in that no file is produced. I get the window come up that says "Processing page" and counts the pages, but when I look for where I saved it to there is nothing there. The only way I can produce PDFs now is Print-PDF-Save as Adobe PDF, as I have Adobe Acrobat installed. But I used to like to use the Mac version often for simplicity.

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