Printing issue from Indesign CS 5.5

Hello,
I have several users using Indesgn CS5.5 on Windows XP machines.  They are all printing to the same printer and the printer has the same name (mapped locally to the machines).  Once someone opens the Indesign file and edits the file, the others are no longer able to print the file.  They go in and print it and it claims that it was sent, but the printer never shows any activity of the print job coming in.

This sounds more like some type of network issue than an InDesing problem...

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