Thanks all and severally.
I must be being a bit dim here. If I select print I get what is possibly a printable format page displayed but no options to choose a printer or indeed print at all.
I did download that pdf printer program that Tim pointed to as this particular laptop that I'm working on hasn't up till now had one (other PCs I use have), and after I had uninstalled all the other junk it shoves on the PC such as Comodo Dragon and all the ASK rubbish there was no change even setting the pdf printer as default.
Browser is Chrome, operating system Vista Business I'll pop over to IE and see what happens !
**Later ** now on different computer, different operating system (win 7) different browser (ie 11) SAME symptoms
So how do you initiate a print to your pdf creator / printer ?