Printing from Reader XI crashes HP 2605 printer, please help

Question

Hello all,
My HP 2605dn printer reboots whenever trying to print PDF files.  Here are the steps I’ve performed to determine that the issue is with printing PDF files only and not other file types:
Mac OSX 10.7.5, HP 2605dn, Apple HP driver v19.6, HP firmware 20061114, 20071108 and 20120413 (per printer’s webpage.)
Disconnect printer from power cord and Ethernet cable for at least 24 hours.
Attach power cord only, power up, and print demo page directly from printer menu successfully.
Attach network cable, reinstall printer, open printer queue, and attempt to print test page from OSX menu; however, page doesn’t print, though printer queue says it did
Open Microsoft Word, and print “Hello World” successfully.
Second attempt to print test page from printer queue succeeds.
Print one page from Safari 6.0.5 successfully.
Open recently created PDF in Preview 5.5.3 and print two pages, two-sided successfully.
Open same PDF with Adobe Reader 11.0.03 and attempt to print first page with Language Level 2 and no download of Asian fonts, but encounter printer error.  Printer itself is displaying “Printing Document”, but the printer is unresponsive to any button presses.
Delete print job from printer queue.
Attempt to print test page from printer queue, but the queue displays “The printer is not connected.”
Disconnect printer from power cord and Ethernet cable for at least five minutes.
Attach power cord only, power up, and print demo page directly from printer menu successfully.  Previously submitted test page is printed as well.
Attach network cable, and print test page from printer queue successfully.
Print one page of same PDF from Preview successfully.
Print Service Page directly from printer successfully.
Print Network Configuration Page directly from printer caused printer to reboot.
Printing one page from Microsoft Word caused printer to reboot.
Printing Demo page directly from printer causes display and buttons to freeze.
Toggle power button, and attempt to print Demo Page directly from printer results with “79 Error” and a reboot.
The same results are obtained when repeating the above steps, beginning with step 2.
I’ve gotten pretty much the same behavior when trying to print PDFs with the generic PCL and PostScript drivers, selecting PostScript language level 2 and 3 in the PDF printing advanced options, and after updating the printer from HP 2605 Firmware 20061114 to 20120413 to 20071108.  My printer is perfectly functional until I attempt to print a PDF under Adobe Reader XI.
I would appreciate any guidance in resolving this issue.
Thanks,
Ira
Downgraded to HP firmware 20071108 and encountered same issue.

Answer 1

Hi nhuser,
Thanks for your help. But I am afraid it still doesn't work. I tried to uninstall and re-download and re-install the driver last night. After that I got an update from apple for the driver of my printer, I installed it but it doesn't help with the two-sided printing.
I can see the option for two-sided printing in the 'layout' section, but it is in grey colour, I can't choose it.