Printer Stopped

I'm having a problem printing word and photoshop files. On the printer cue, the status indicates "stopped". The pause/resume buttons don't do anything.
I believe that this may have started when I sent off a pdf file with a password, because there's an error message that suggests that there's a pdf problem and also when I try to print, sometimes a pdf dialogue box comes up asking me for a password. I've not been able to find any way to shut off this function of Adobe Acrobat.
Ray Rasmussen
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In order to change security settings for a pdf within Acrobat, which includes restricting printing, you often need to know the password. Open the pdf in Acrobat and open Properties. You will see the Security tab and if you change the current level, you will be prompted for a password. If you have no way of finding the password then you will need to redistill the file using a utility that can remove the security. I have used such an app on Windows so that we could copy text from locked manuals. Now I don't remember what it is called or even if one exists for Mac, but I can find out when I'm back at work on tomorrow.

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