InDesign won't print colors in text boxes

I have been working on a newsletter that includes some charts and tables in it. I put the tables and charts in a text box, and then added a background fill color to it. I exported the document to PDF, and the colors showed up there fine.
The trouble occurs when I try to print the document. The fill color in the box does not show up at all. What can I do to fix that. Thanks for the help.

This sounds more like an issue with the printer driver and the PDF than an InDesign issue, but one way to test would be to try to print direct from ID. Do the colors print correctly then?
What do you see in Acrobat when you turn on Overprint Preview? Is the color still there?
Can you post this PDF on a server someplace so we can download and test it?
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