Faultless pdf print master shows mistakes on the printer's computer

For years I have manufactured artworks in Indesign (now CS2) and link with it mainly psd image files. Exotic fonts are converted into paths. The exported pdfs are then sent as print master to to the printer's. With three different printing enterprises I never had had a problem so far.
Now I have changed the print office again, and the prints look really bad: One of the psd-linked pictures has strong hard black shadows (in the original they are quite soft and greyish) and overlays with one white corner (in the original transparent background) another picture, although it appears completely correct in my pdf, on all 5 computers, which we have in the house, in different pdf readers.
In addition 2 Logos (originally white fonts on transparent background)
were printed with a white background. On no monitor that I know (ours and friends') any mistakes in the pdfs show up, only on the printer's computer they appear: I received screenshots from the print office with the same time stamps as my pdf-masters, however with the errors, high-loaded on
the server, which appear afterwards in the pressure. I am
shocked, because the print master stops to be a master if it gets out of control. What can I do? Thanks for advice.

The problems you are describing sound like improper handling of transparency and overprinting at the printer, either because he doesn't understand how to deal with it correctly or his equipment is out of date. I'd look for a different printer.
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