Problem printing photos in Pagemaker and PDF

I publish a newsletter that contains lots of photos. I do layout in Pagemaker. The last issue when I printed out the document to proof it all the photos printed in solid bright blue, even the black & white photos. The same when I converted to PDF. However the file is fine. I burned it on a disk to take to my printer and he had no trouble. Photos print fine in preview and in photoshop. Old Pagemaker documents are also fine, just anything new or anything I make a change to and then save. My non-Mac son seems to think it could be a corrupted printer driver, but I'm nervous to download a new one for fear I won't be able to print anything.

Not sure what's causing this, but you'll get more exposure of your question in the Tiger printing forum at http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=756
Suggest you repost there.
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