Crop marks out of alignment on double sided pdf

I have an Indesign CS4 two page document I have saved as a press pdf with crops. The client has just told me the double sided proof has come back with the crop marks out of alignment (offset vertically). Isn't this something the printrer can easily sort, or should I be setting it up differently in Indesign??
Cheers
Jacqui

Willi Adelberger wrote:
You should set it up as facing pages if it is double sided.
I don't see a reason to do that for a two-page document. It makes it harder to scroll between the pages since thay are not vertically aligned on the pasteboard and it should have no effect on things like crops.
And yes, screen shots of the page in ID and the PDF would help a lot....
You can embed them in your post using the camera icon on the web page, like this:

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