Pdf imported into InDeisng looks really bad when printed

It´s completly destroyed It. It looks all blocky. Please view it here, as I am crap at explaining. The original document was scanned from a Sharp MXC-311. When scanned from a different (Sharp MXC-5001) machine it looks fine. I think that it is something wrong with the way InDesign handles pdf, any ideas that might help?

You have to realise that a scanned page is just an image. Just because you scan it to a PDF format it doesn't mean that it's a good quality PDF.
All you are doing is scanning an image and then it is wrapped in PDF code to be viewable in Acrobat.
You would have to scan the document at a given resolution to get the right print quality.
Was this a preprinted piece, like a magazine or book? Do you need to descreen the image?

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