Printing .pdfs created from InDesign CS6

Hi, I am in charge of creating and distributing my company's interoffice quarterly newsletter. Currently, I am designing the newsletter in InDesign as an 8-page document and am importing our corporate mailing list along with the Data Merge function to personalize the cover of each copy of the newsletter.  When I go the export the document, I only know how to either create a large .pdf containing the 8-page newsletter multipled by the 241 employees equalling approximately 2,000 pages, and I know how to export each individual newsletter into it's own .pdf for a total of 241 documents that need to be indidvually printed.  My question is: how can I streamline this process so I don't have to sit in front of my computer and print out 241 individual .pdfs or change the print range from pages 1-8, 9-16,17-24, etc. for all 241 newsletters? I am interested in creating a process that will print out 241 individual newsletters each with the cover page set to include the name, title and department of each employee.  Thank you

I'm not sure why, but my original post came through blank. Here is a
second attempt:
> Often, the pages that will not print, when viewed at a normal
magnification, appear as very
> small thumbnails that look like the dotted line down a black highway.
The rest of the pages
> are at a normal magnification and can be read.
I almost didn't reply to your post because I'm not sure that I am making
anything but a wild guess. But I seem to recall many years ago that
there were some reports on the frameusers.com listserv of some PDF pages
showing up as tiny pages-- similar to what you describe. I'm not sure if
I can trust my recollection, but I THINK the fix was to go into the PDF
printer properties, and reduce the dpi setting from 1200 to 600 or even
300. I don't remember the exact reason, but I think it had something to
do with a problem in the way Windows GDI interacts with documents
containing large-size type (such as 72-point glyphs). Anyway, I may be
remembering it wrong, or may be off on the wrong track altogether, but
it won't hurt to make the change and try. You can always change the
setting back.
And if it doesn't work, consider posting your operating system, Acrobat
version number, and whether or not FrameMaker 9 is fully patched. It
might help someone else chime in with help.

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