PDF printing in negative colours

This problem is similar to the below issue:-
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2213410?start=0&tstart=0
The fixes discussed in that thread do not work.
I have a user who is trying to print a PDF opened in Preview on a Mac Snow Leopard OS onto a Brother HL-5380DN printer. However some of the images contained in the PDF printout as negatives (ie black text on a white background prints as white text on a black background). when I try printing the same PDF document I get no problems. This only affects some images on the PDF. eg there are two graphs side-by-side in the PDF, see below image, the left hand image (which contains colour) prints out as a negative and the right hand image prints out ok.
Comparing the below page of the PDF on-screen on our 2 machines: on the user's Mac if I click on the left hand image then I select (or highlight) the image; on my Mac if I click the same image then nothing happens. Analysing further all images from this PDF that printed negative contained colour and could be selected on my user's Mac.
I don't know what is causing this issue. I think it's to do with the way Preview is setup but I can't see any differences. The user has different programs (like Adobe) installed, could these be causing some interference??
Any help is greatfully received.
Joe.

Yes I can print colours correctly using other channels for example printing the document directly from indesign is fine and I have tried printing some of illustrator files that i have used within the page and they print fine after being converted to a PDF.
I did use file-export pdf to save the file what other way is there, I looked under save as and it only allowed me to save the file as an indesign document, maybe I am missing something?

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