Darkened box around individual Illustrator elements

Hello all,
I created a card with a dark gray background which has different flowers on it (all with transparent backgrounds).  All of the flowers are the same PNG file except some of them are different colors (I traced the flowers and used Live Paint to color the petals differently).  For some reason, there is only one type of flower that has a darkened square around the flower when it's printed.  And for some reason it only happens on certain printers and not others.
I was going to just recreate that flower using the other PNG images of that same flower that don't have that issue but just wondering what causes that?  When I exported the JPGs, I selected RGB instead of CYMK - does that affect the images at all?  (I did this because some of the websites to upload pictures don't accept non-RGB images).
Also, the files being printed are JPGS or PDFs that have been exported from Illustrator.
Thanks.

Thanks - don't have access to Illustrator at the moment but will try that later.  I've attached a scanned image of the problem - as you see the flowers were all created using the same PNG file and traced/live painted with different colors - but the small ones in green all
have a tinted border around them.

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