Washed out text when printing from Acrobat Help?

When I print PDFs from Adobe Acrobat all the text is washed out. It is supposed to be black but I get gray text.
I have the print settings at rich text black.
The print settings on Acrobat are 600dpi.
It is not a printer issue as I get the same problem with 2 different printer that are different makes and models.
It is a high resolution PDF with no image compression.
The file prints fine from Indesign.
I am running Acrobat Professional 8.2.3
I am running CS 3 master suite
any help is appreciated.
thanks
Trevor

IF, (and that is a big if) the pdf is create some some type of text (word open office, pages, etc)  then open PDF  in acrobat and click on Touch up text tool
(a Samll button with a capital "T" on it -without quote marks).
Click on select all. then  File menu look for Properties. click on properties
when window opens click on appearance tab.
choose color by clicking on colored block. choose black.
IF your document then your out of luck there are no fonts just a drawing of what appears to be fonts. You might use OCR on Document but then not all Characters might ocr so you would only be partially successful.

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