Printing to Acrobat = no images!???

I writing my own software that does a bunch of stuff for a lab, and one thing it needs to do is print a two page report. Page 2 has two bitmaps on it. I can print (on paper) to a number of printers, HP LaserJets and inkjets, with no problems, but when I try printing to Acrobat, to create PDF files (obviously), the two bimaps don't print. Well, sometimes they don't print, or maybe only one of them prints. But this doesn't ever happen on my other printers. I can create PDF files using a SmartDraw PDF FIlter, something that came with a flowcharting program I bought last year, and it works fine. But, again, Acrobat doesn't.
One other thing, I've been dealing with this for a while, and in earlier versions of Acrobat, v5 I think, it didn't work, then an update came along and it started working, then another update came along and it quit working...
Recently I've started trying out programming tools from other authors, things that promise to streamline my prinngint, and they do, but the bitmap printing problem is still with me.
Given that my program works well and consistenlty for other printers, and I'm not doing anything special regarding how I call Windows' printer functions, and for that PDF filter, what's up with Acrobat and how do I fix it.
By the way, my bitmaps are 2400x1800 images, and they are bitmaps, not tiff or jpeg. They print at about 7.5" wide and 4" or so high, so I think my file size is about right for getting good results, about 320 ppi.
Finally, for the image prining itself, I've used DrawBitmap and StretchBitMap (I'm programming in Delphi, but these are probably familiar to those using other languages) which both use DIB when printing. DrawBitmap printed the images sometimes, StretchBitmap never. I'll try using StretchGraphic today and I'll see if reducing the sizes of the images helps. But, I doubt image size will matter because in the past even 640x480 images had problems printing.
Thanks.

Manually?
My program just uses standard Delphi and Windows functions to print. By print, I mean when I want to create a PDF file I print to Adobe PDF, same as I do with all the other programs on my PC. I'm not using and Adobe SDK routines.
Like I wrote initally, I can print fine to several other printers, but not to Acrobat to create PDF files, and in the past Acrobat has sometimes worked and sometimes not worked, depending on the update. SmartDraw's PDF filter works, but that software is not on a lot of people's systems. I may contact them to see if I can find out what they are doing differently.
Also, I have all kinds of error trapping around the bit of code that creates the bitmaps and sends them to the printer, all part of trying to figure out what is going wrong. No errors are reported either by my program or Adobe PDF. I even went as far as, during the print process, to copy the bitmaps to the clipboard so I could see exactly what Adobe PDF is getting. I then pasted them into Photoshop. The images look fine.

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