Image glitch when printing to Panther Pro RIP

I'm having random issues when printing separations to a PantherPro 46 imagesetter from Indesign CS4 (processes through the PantherPro RIP on an OS9 computer ... super old, I know). An image will randomly shift in the box. (see example of what was imaged to film).
This is what I have collected: It happens only on images within a pdf. Happens on either 4-color separations or Composite Gray. When we find the glitch, we cannot replicate the issue when printing a second time to the same imagesetter.
The printer manufacturer only suggested that we print a postscript file to the imagesetter instead of the native file. Thoughts/suggestions?

CS5
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:49 AM, ADBEDesigner <[email protected]>

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