help ! i/d to acrobat problem

[mops]

hi guys - i've posted in 'general software' but i think this is more an acrobat setting - i'm desperately hoping someone can help

basically i'm working with images in i/d and then exporting to acrobat 7. everything is great on screen but when i print the exported pdf from acrobat sometimes it's perfect, and then i go to re-print the same pdf and it's like a very bad quality jpeg:

so far:
* i've rest i/d to it's default settings
* preset in i/d is set to pdf/x:a
* preset in acrobat is also set to pdf/x:a

before i export from i/d i check that the preset is set - but it keeps going onto a different one - so i define it to pdf/x:a - i then save and then export to acrobat - check the preset and its the same as i/d

and this is where the problem - sometimes the images printer clear, but a second print out is usually very bad quality.

* i've even set both presets to high quality to see if this makes a difference but i'm still having a problem.

i'm not worried too much about my printouts, i'm more concerned that the exported pdf's that i send to the printer will be like these bad prints of mine

can someone please help me ? thank you in advance

[Marketx]

just asking out of ignorance but, did you actually setting the pdf export in ID for print? oh, and why do you export from acrobat?

[mops]

hi mark
thank you for replying

sorry - not exporting from acrobat - i export from i/d to acrobat and then print

i'm placing psd files (which were saved in ps) into i/d
then all i do is export it to acrobat

beyond the obvious - i'm a layman as far as technical settings go

thanks mark

[mops]

in i/d - would the 'proof setup' setting make a difference - at the moment its on 'working document' ?

[mops]

mark - i've jsut run a few off now - presets in i/d and acrobat are set to high quality and i've changed the 'standard' option in acrobat to 'none'...........i have no idea what this means but since i've done this theyre printing fine - would this make a difference if it was on another setting ?

[Marketx]

I'm actually quite lost here... but you know how this goes... someone asks the most simple question out of ignorance and... tadaaaaaaaa:) something happens...

It's anoying not to know what's happened but, as long as it's worked... (for now, just until the pros findout why's happened) ;)

[mops]

there probably a really simple explanation for it mark, it's just i'm not really clued up on the heavier settings - just the basic stuff

thanks for your help