Why is printing from Acro Reader X so slow?

I have Windows 7, an HP laser printer, and Acrobat Reader X. It seems to me when I've printed previously the pages alway came out at about 2 pages per second; right now I have a 117 page PDF that's printing only one page every 30 seconds - so slow that the printer engine starts up and shuts off between each page. Is there some setting I need to be aware of so documents will print in what I consider the 'normal' way, or at least what I'm used to, i.e. faster?

I started getting the same slow printing problem within the last month when I replaced my previous PC.  The previous PC had Vista Home Premium 32 bit, and the new one has Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.  I use Acrobat X Pro.  I have a LaserJet P4014n which is a 45 ppm printer, and it used to print pdf files at that speed.  Now, it prints about 4 pages, pauses for a few seconds, prints 4 more pages, pauses a few seconds, etc.
I can only assume that the printing slow down is from having Windows 7.  Windows 7 apparently has a lot of drivers (for printers and other things) built into the OS, whereas earlier versions of Windows were designed so that you downloaded drivers from the web. 
I have found several instances where this new method of providing drivers inside the Windows 7 OS provides less functionality than the old drivers did.  Another example is with my LaserJet 3390 which is an All-In-One.  It used to have functions that HP called HPToolBoxFX that had a lot of functions where the AIO would interact with a connected PC.  Windows 7 does not support or have any of those functions, so the functions from HPToolBoxFX are now gone.
I think that Adobe and Microsoft and HP need to get together on the printer drivers for Windows 7 so that those drivers allow a high speed LaserJet to print at full speed when printing a pdf file from a PC with Windows 7.

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