Blurry images when printed from indesign

having problems with only some images in an indesign document. all images are placed and the original files are perfectly crisp pdfs...tried changing the display performance but still appearing and printing blurry? when i click f8 on the image it doesn't show any ppi at all- not sure if this means something?
please help!!
thanks, chrissy

it could also have something to do with the fact i'm having to swap computers to print the file- i'm going to try taking all the links with me and relinking the ones that are apprearing blurry to see if that helps
Bingo.

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at the graphic arts industry, and then says that the reason it doesn't
work is because there's a problem with the software produced by the
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