InDesign Printing 2 Blank Pages

I have an 81pg InDesign CS3 document which im trying to print. The print progress bar manages to get through all of the pages, however only 2 blank pages are actually printed.
Does anyone have a solution for this?

Actually, the LaserJet 5 printers with the Adobe Postscript option, such as the 5M, 5MP, and 5siMX, were among the most reliable Hewlett-Packard printers that support PostScript assuming that you have enough memory. (Current HPproducts use somewhat unreliable "CloneScript" emulations of PostScript that have fairly problematic in terms of printing output from graphic arts programs!) The older LaserJets were typically sold in "bait and switch" configurations that typically had the absolute minimum amount of memory so that the "dealer" could sell you very profitable memory upgrades. Thus, for an old LaserJet 5MP which shipped with either 4 or 6 megabytes of memory total (it's been a while!), anything less than about 10 to 12 megabytes of memory could be problematic for printing typical graphically-complex content.
I have two LaserJet 5M printers - one in my office at Adobe and one at home - each with a duplexor and loaded with 22MB of memory. There isn't a file that I have ever had to print that fails on these printers.
          - Dov

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