InDesign PDF prints greyed and not crisp

InDesign file print solid and crisp but when converted to PDF it is greyed and faded. Created PDF with "Press QUlaity PDF preset" and also tried it through Distiller. Color settings are "North American Prepress 2" in Indesign and U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 in Acrobat - how do I resolve this?

Can you post some screen shots and colour build values in InDesign

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