Images lack contrast

Hi Guys,
I am trying to export a multi page, mono Indesign file to a press ready pdf.
Not normally an issue but this time...
What's happening is this.
When the pdf file is produced the image lack contrast and have also lost density in the shadow area.
I have tried various combination of joboptions without success.
Has not been an issue in the past. Could it be the greyscale images are retaining their profile when originally catured?
Help please if you can!

Here's your page.
An almost picture perfect copy. Copy/paste I did.
http://home.wyodor.net/cms/AA/AA.html
I advice you to change this :
http://phyllisbonifacemd.com/Psychiatry_Specialists_AA/Contact_files/shapeimage_ 1.png
It's an image, not text. Type the text in a NEW textbox again and then copy/paste the Graphics Style from the textbox below the image.
And check the text itself. There's this strange #10 character in it I copied from the alt tag of the image. Only type text you actually want.
And then check it check it check it until it's right.

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