Printing queue stuck

I have AutoCAD 2006 and Adobe Pro X that I have been using for a couple of years. For some strange reason, this past week I have not been able to create "pdf's" from my AutoCAD drawings.. I go to my AutoCAD drawing, select the print option, select Adobe PDF as my printer as always, and hit print. It asks me what file to store the pdf in as always and I select the file to store the pdf in. I hit save button, and it processes right across the screen as always.. However, NO pdf in my job file that I had specified.. I have done this a hundred times the same way with no problems until this past week. Now if I go to start/ printers and devices/ and select the ADOBE printer, there are all of my drawings that I have tried to create this week in queue. They show as "printed' but the note at the bottom of the screen says (10) prints in queue.. Typically once the drawings have processed they do not show up in the printer queue, but there they are as if they have not proceesed.. I went back and restarted my computer to see if that helped, I tried several other drawings and they all are sitting in "queue" in the Adobe printer.. Now I will note that I did try to create a pdf from my AutoCAD drawing directly "through Adobe" and I get a message saying that the file type is not supported.. But I have been doing these Adobe pdf creations for over 2 years.. Why now are they unsupported?? Not sure what has happened or if I have mistakenly hit or clicked on a wrong button or feature, but I need some help.. They seem to process to a point, but just don't make it to the file folder that I had selected. Thanks

If you created a LPD printer queue, then you may not have specified the correct queue name. Some print controllers, especially Fiery, require a specific queue name for LPD. In the case of the Fiery's, you need a queue name of print and it must be entered in lower case.
Another suggestion is to use HP Jetdirect-Socket instead of LPD. This is known as RAW Port 9100 on Windows print queues. With Jetdirect-Socket, you simply need to enter the IP address of the printer. No queue name is required (it is locked to 9100). Then you can select the print model in the Print Using menu and Add the queue.
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A bizarre solution to a spooling problem.
Problem:
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Solution (Bizarre Solution).
The solution that worked for me was to rename the printer by removing the first space after “HP” in the printer’s name. When I did this, Word could then print to the printer. If the space is then re-inserted back into the printer-name then Word is still able to print!! I don’t know how, but it worked, and it worked on two separate installations! The full explanation is below with more options for testing that still need to be explored, or preferably explained by HP and or Microsoft.
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I then renamed the printer, but this time I just removed the first space after the letters “HP”, i.e., I changed the printer’s name from “HP Officejet Pro K5300 Series” to “HPOfficejet Pro K5300 Series”. After I did that Word could then print to it. I then changed the printer’s name back to “HP Officejet Pro K5300 Series” by re-inserting the first space, and Word could still print to it now.
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What an amazing solution!
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I went back to Admin mode, re-classified the Limited account as a Computer Administrator account, logged on to this account and re-named the printer (in this case I took out another space so it became HPDeskjetF4500 series. Then it printed fine using the print icon or using File->Print->choose page number or current page. I then went back to the Computer Administrator account, re-named the printer to HPDeskjet F4500 and re-classified the second account back to Limited account mode. Now printing OK in both Computer Administrator account mode and Limited account mode.
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