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There's lots of noise in this thread. So, am looking for some specific clarification:

      And one last point for Sean, the reason I print to file (appart from my
      attempt at humour about the File port feeling lonely) is to avoid the
      automatic call to distiller (using the last set of Job Options in distiller)
      because I sometimes forget to change them before OK to the print request.
      I still can't get used to Print to PDF in FM7 having drilled myself and
      others not to do this for earlier versions of FM. I work with many versions
      of FM in two languages and find myself occasionally trying to do FM7 English
      things in FM5.5.6 French and many other combinations.




Okay. Before this, I don't think you said the problem was printing PDFs. So, I was thinking you could not print onto paper housed in your HP printer. From here-on out, am assuming this is a problem creating PDFs in FrameMaker 5.5.6. If it is not, please let me know.

Q1. Do you have a Distiller printer installed?

      I have 20 different PPD files on my system. Some are duplicates, variously
      in Acrobat Xtras, FM6\ppds, and ...\spool\drivers\w32x86. There are 5
      files; Adist5.ppd, adist5cs.ppd, adist5ct.ppd, adist5j.ppd, adist5k.ppd,
      which appear to be for Acrobat 5 and a similar set for Acrobat 4.




Since we know we are talking about printing to PDF, ands since we know you are using FM 5.5.6, then the list of PPDs represents some confusion, as FM 5.5.6 came with Acrobat 3.

Q2. What version of Acrobat or Acrobat Distiller is installed on your computer? Please be precise, for example, "4.05c."

Cheers,

Sean