Print to Art,Trim or Bleed Box without changing Crop Box

I understand that Acrobat is aware of the Art, Trim & Bleed boxes set from other applications (Indesign, Illustrator) when exporting to PDF. Is there a way to print only the content within one of these boxes without adjusting the dimensions of the document's Crop Box via Acrobat's "Set Pages Boxes" or "Crop Pages" dialog?
Thank you and have a great day,
Brandon Boswell

This method works, but unfortuantley you cannot save recolor artwork settings(atleast in CS5), to resue this method to save time. Posting this incase this helps.
Create cmyk global colors of slected artowrk by using swathces palette >> add selected colors
Manually create a tint swatch for you destination colors (32130 tints), by using color palette, slide tint over, then add new swatch for each one.
Edit >> Edit Colors >> Recolor Artwork >> Click on the smaller swatches on right to set a destination color for each
see belwo this worked

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As an extra step, it's possible to confirm that the trim marks are going to the crop box and not the bleed box or trim box. If you add a slug to your InDesign document and reoutput the pdf (being sure to include the slug area in the "Marks and Bleeds" section), you will find that the Trim Marks are even further outside of the cyan box. If you output your PDF from InDesign with Trim Marks already applied, you can turn on the Trim Marks option when going to print in Acrobat to see that Acrobat's Trim Marks are going outside of the crop box as well instead of overlapping the ones generated by InDesign.
Is there any fix for this behavior aside from opening the files in Acrobat 9 and printing from there instead?

yes, in the pure definition of the word in the world of print, Crop DOES equal trim...in the exact concept of what YOU see it as.
in Adobe's little bubble, they decided to call the outer box the "Crop" so that they could differentiate between trim and crop in the page box model.
These pictures should help, if not, I'm not going to continue to explain something that you don't want to grasp.
Each picture shows what Acrobat is calling each page box line. since they felt the need to call one trim and one crop, you have to widen your concept of what Adobe is defining "crop" as. Not saying its right, but it is what they are doing, and what is causing the whole issue.
All that aside, if you are not understanding the page box model, then your PDFs are probably not set up this way, so you probably wouldn't even notice the change... So why are you posting on this thread?

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Thanks. I did try it the other way as well, but then my crop marks show out of artboard for some reason and I need to adjust them manually, hence changing the trim size, which I don't want. If I don't adjust them to appear on artboard then they don't show in PDF. That happens when I use the rectangle in trim size.
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