Shadow effect printing issue

Hi
I'm having an issue with the shadow effect that must be so simple to resolve because if its not I don't understand why this tool is available. I have created a text box which is placed over another colour area, typed my text, clicked on the shadow button in the toolbar and shadow is applied to my text. It looks fine onscreen, it looks fine when I export to pdf but as soon as I print it doesn't look fine. When printed the text box is filled with a semi translucent version of the colour below it. If I print the text box so that its not sitting on top of a coloured background there is no problem but if there is something behind it then the text box appears.
Hope that makes sense, I'm only a part time indesign user so I'm not as skilled as I'm sure many of you are so please help this me get past this really annoying problem.
Thanks
H

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