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Printer driver possible issue

I have a HP Elitebook laptop that is doing something odd, when printed to PDF, it prints all BLACK. When printing to excel of a certain printer HP Laserjet 1300 prints gibberish. The following was tried:

Printers removed and added back. What can be the issue? I really don't want to re-image the machine.
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AWAWADA, did that no change. I have attached two images one of EXCEL the other one is PRINTED TO PDF from that particular EXCEL.
201305161645.pdf
201305161644.pdf
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No new AV software installations. Just MS Essentials. Will look into excluding it from scan.
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did you test the printer itself?  by printing a configuration or test page? or on another system?
it can be bad, or maybe a bad cable
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@Nobus yes printer prints all other formats ok, plus if redirected to another network printer, PDFs still blacked out.

@HDhondt The PDF is displayed OK on the screen with colors and all. Will try to print as image. The Adobe used is 8.1.3 Adobe Professional with latest updates.
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Thank you all.