Won't print any .pdf files

I cannot get any .pdf file to print from my Macbook. Is there something i might have inadvertently checked or unchecked or done that might have made this happen? It doesn't matter if it is a file I create or if it is an email attachement, they all send to the printer and then in the printer tray it says stopped and won't restart or print.
Thank you for any help.

More information...
the printer says "error cannot create pdfdocumentref and then a window pops up that says
client-error-not-possible"
any ideas what that means?

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