Imported .psd file has a different black

I have a indesign file with a 100 % black background, where I have Placed a .psd file. But when I print the document, the transparent areas of my .psd are printed as dark grey.
Does anyone know where I went wrong? It's quite frustrating, even without a deadline.

OK.
First, let me say that your file prints fine here, just as it is, on my Fiery-driven Xerox Phaser 790, both directly from InDesign and from a PDF/X-1a export in Acrobat, so I think the problem is in your workflow someplace.
There are probably a combination of things happening, but the first thing I would do is change the background color to an RGB Black rather than the default 100% K black swatch. Keeping the background and the image in the same color space will help when it's time to do any conversion, and I think you may be donig multiple conversions before the toner hits the paper. Change the flattener space to RGB, too.
This is very similar to your use of [Registration], but will generate a CMYK rich black that is actually printable, in theory, on any equipment. You may still have some trouble with fusing the toner and flakeoff if the mix is too dense, so if that happens, reduce the density of the RGB black a bit, it should still be much darker than 100%K.
If that by itself doesn't fix the problem, the next step I would try would be to export a PDF. Try both the [High Quality Print] and [PDF/X-1a] presets to start. I picked those because the first one does no color conversion or flattening (and should yeild a file with an sRGB background) and the second will convert to your CMYK profile and flatten the transparency.
Let us know what results you get at that point, and we can take more steps if necessary, but I don't want to complicate things too much before we have to.
Oh, and before I forget, you need to add a bleed and extend that black background for trimming unless your print is capable of printing all the way to the edge on that size sheet (and I'd add it anyway, even if the printer is supposed to print borderless).
Peter

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