Flattening images in Acrobat X pro

Hi everyone,
I need to flatten some images in a pdf. It is a thirty page pdf and when printed all the images have transparent boxes around them. So far the only solution I know is to take each page into photoshop, flatten the image and reinsert the image back into the pdf. This of course is taking forever. I was wondering if Acrobat has any built in tools to take care of this kind of issue? I am using Acrobat X pro on Mac running 10.8.5.. I have tried using "preview transparent objects" tool  with the raster set to 100 and vectors to 0 but it didn't seem to make a differnce. Any help would be appreciated.

What I was refering to by flattening is the "flatten image" function in Photoshop. As in the option directly below merge visable and merge down in the layers flyout menu. For some reason running that function or the rasterize function in the object menu in illustrator is the only way I can make sure transparecny boxs dont show up when I print through my Fiery Rip software. Like I mentioned this method works well with individual pages in multiple page pdfs, but I often have to do this for many images at a time. It would be nice to be able to do the same thing in Acrobat to the whole pdf all  at one time.( Of course what would really be nice would be if people would submitt their files correctly to avoid this problem in the first place but that is asking way to much) 

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