Printing PDF now disabled

Up until this morning, Feb. 20/12 I have had no trouble sending a PDF file to my local printer.  Now when I direct a print job to the printer it asks me to save it to a file only.  Will not print.

(To find "Print to file", click the Advanced button in the Print dialog box.)

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