Printing from PDF, original made in pages

I am finding that when I create some documents in Pages and turned them into PDF, the images show in acrobat but do not print on our laser printers.
Has anyone seen this?
PBG4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

In acrobat, click 'advanced' in the print window, then click 'print as image'. This sometimes works.

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