Slow printing in Acrobat 7/9 on G5

Here's a really odd problem:
I have a G5 with 10.4.11. When I print a PDF which is all B/W images (scans) it takes a long time to queue the job and then there's a significant pause at the printer between each page. It's being printed to a copier connected with a Fiery RIP, so we're talking postscript. I'm guessing that there's something wrong with the writing of the postscript on this computer.
I have this problem in Acrobat version 7 and 9. I have not checked using Reader. Preview has a similar problem as well.
This problem is specific to this user account. I tried printing with a new user, and the response is much better. I'm assuming there's some bad plist files somewhere in my main user account, but the ones that I've tried removing have not solved the problem (at least not totally).
Any suggestions on which preferences I need to get rid of?
Harbs

Your problem is related to the fact that your using a post script printer
.  Non PS printers don't have the problem.  Try printing as an image.
  It works sometimes.

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