Problem printing mixed paper size pdf

[Thump553]

I have a perplexing problem. I receive large pdf files (roughly 90 pages) that are a mixture of letter and legal size pages that I need to print out. My problem is that once I reach a legal size page, that and all subsequent pages will be printed on legal size paper.

Equipment: Brother MFC-8840D printer (direct connect via USB), regular tray loaded with letter size paper, optional add-on tray loaded with legal, MS Vista, Adobe Reader 10.1.3 software being used. MS Vista Home Premium with SP2, all software and drivers updated and current.

The printer settings used: Size options-Actual Size and Choose Paper Source by PDF Page Size selected, printer driver Brother PCL5e, letter and legal both set to auto select.

Any help would be appreciated, I have spent a lot of time and gone through a lot of paper trying to get this to work right.

PS-to make it worse, sometimes a mixed size pdf will print out correctly, it seems to matter which client I recieve it from.

 

[Puppies04]

Perhaps some of your clients are using an older adobe version or another program altogether. Seems likely the problem doesn't actually originate on your end so fixing it might be a problem unless you can convince the clients that you are having probelms with to update.