Problems with colours - Photoshop to InDesign to PDF

I have created a small header image in Photoshop. It consists of a background with a number of layers using blue and grey (the grey is RGB: 202, 202, 202). I placed the image in InDesign and then converted to press quality PDF for printing. In InDesign I have also created a number of shapes (rectangles with rounded corners) which I have made the same grey colour (202, 202, 202). On the screen everything looks the same grey, however, when I convert to a PDF and print, the grey in the image I placed from Photoshop looks a completely different grey colour to the rectangle shapes I created in InDesign with the same background colour. The grey colour I am using is all 202, 202, 202.
Why when I print are there completely different shades of grey?

I checked with our IT dept and the links I sent previously are in public folders, so there shouldn't be any need to log on anywhere.
Anyway, do these work?
https://fileexchange.imperial.ac.uk/files/f953692d5b7/Banner_template_no_pics_new_colour.p sd
https://fileexchange.imperial.ac.uk/files/ac28b08fee9/LMS_Attachment.indd
https://fileexchange.imperial.ac.uk/files/503745fea71/Banner_template_no_pics_new_colour.p ng
I just converted the Photoshop image mode in Photoshop to CMYK and created a rectangle shape with the same grey colour underneath it and printed it directly from Photoshop. I then converted the image to PNG and placed in InDesign, created a grey rectangle underneath the banner image and printed directly from InDesign and finally I converted to press quality pdf and printed. All still have the same colour difference between the grey colours.It appears to me that it is something to do with Photoshop, because the greys WHEN PRINTED in photoshop all look the same but strange - kind of washed out with some magenta in it. They look fine on the screen. If placed in InDesign as a PNG image, the grey still looks okay on screen as it does in Photoshop, alongside a grey rectangle created in InDesign. However, when printed the difference in grey is considerable.
The weird thing is the Photoshop grey looks weird - kind of washed out with some magenta in it.
https://fileexchange.imperial.ac.uk/files/8aa900e67c3/LMS__Programme_Attachment.pdf

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