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Printed Report is Unsatisfactory

Printing HTML may produce unsatisfactory results. For best results, use the View in PDF Format command, and then print the PDF. This alternative gives you more control over such things as pagination than the browser does.

Problem When Printing PDF

You print a document in PDF format, but the print job is incomplete. For example, the job stops printing when it reaches a particular graphic.  This is an Adobe Acrobat Reader issue that can occur when printing some PDFs using some versions of Acrobat Reader and some printer models. The same PDF may print correctly under one or both of the following conditions:
• using a different version of Acrobat Reader
• using a different printer

If you print from an Acrobat 4.0 or later product, you can try the following solution.

Steps to Force a Page to Print as an Image
1. In Acrobat Reader, from the File menu, click Print.
2. In the Printer section, select the Print as image check box.  Because files print more slowly using this option, make sure you specify only the nonprinting page.
3. In the Print Range section, click Pages from and Pages to, type only the page number of the nonprinting page, and then click OK.  You can print the rest of the PDF by resending the job starting on the next page.
4. Clear the Print as image check box.
5. In the Print Range section, click Pages from and Pages to, type the page range for the remaining pages, and then click OK.
Although you can use the Print as image option to print the file, this setting does not resolve the original printing problem. For more information, see the Adobe Web site.