PDF printing ASCII characters and not sure why

[rowech]

I have no clue what in the hell has happened to my computer but if I try and print a pdf file coming from an online source it prints as ASCII characters. No issue printing PDF files from my computer, nor Excel/Word/Browser, etc.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled my printer. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe 10 and gone back to 9 and that didn't fix it. I've now spent five hours on this. It's not the printer because my wife's computer works fine.

Anybody with any ideas?

[cartman]

Sounds like somehow your downloads got switched from binary to ASCII. Have you tried using a different browser to download the PDFs?

[Warhammer]

I've had the same problem, but it only crops up after I've printed 4 or 5 pages. It started with the new Adobe. What is your printer per chance? I have an HP J6480.

[rowech]

Warhammer, that is the EXACT same printer I have. I've tried Chrome and Firefox and both have the same problem.

[rowech]

Downloaded a different PDF viewer called Foxit. Works fine, prints fine. Five hours of work fixed in five minutes. So long as this program is somewhat safe.

[sterlingice]

If there's an older PCL version (say, 5 instead of 6) available, you can try that driver. I've seen newer drivers with more complex versions of PCL have some translations issues with software and incorrectly formed PDFs.

SI

[Toddzilla]

You should have the option to print PDFs as an image - that bypasses any of the encoding.

[rowech]

You should have the option to print PDFs as an image - that bypasses any of the encoding.

Tried that too...no luck. I'm fine, I can get them read and printed with the program I downloaded from CNET.