Print from Preview not working

I wanted to print a 6-page pdf file yesterday, so I opened with the default Preview, looked fine on screen, clicked print, right number of pages came out, but it was all horizontal lines and little marks, nothing like the text in the file, more like the PostScript didn't get interpreted right.
Open the same file with Adobe, looks the same, prints correctly, so it's aparently not the file, nor the HP 3390 printer (ok I admit there is some small chance) but something about Preview. I have no recollection of the last time I tried printing from Preview, if I ever did, so I don't know how long this has been a problem. Coincidentally, I upgraded from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6 earlier in the day.
Is there some control in Preview or somewhere else I've got set wrong? Is this a new or recognized bug in Preview? Something else I'm not thinking about?

Just curious if there has been any update to this problem. I have experienced the exact same as OP from a downloaded pdf.
Regards Pat

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