Transparent Background shows!

I have placed an image which I made into a transparent background in photoshop into my InDesign document, but the transparent border shows. It makes a slightly lighter background color where the border of the picture used to be white. I have tried saving it in all different formats! Thanks for your help!

Make absolutely certain the transparency in Photoshop is fully transparent:
1. In Photoshop make a new background layer and fill with a solid color
2. Hide and show the other layers. In the areas that are supposed to be transparent, does the background color change at all when you show the other layers?
One other question. Does the file look OK on-screen in InDesign, but look incorrect on a printout?

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I totally forgot to put that in my post. Yes, I am putting logos with transparent backgrounds in front of colored rectangles. That's how I noticed that this one logo is showing up with a white background. The weird thing is that the other two logos are fine. I did find a different version of this logo and this one works fine. The one that works fine is a JPG and the one that shows up with a white background is a JPG.

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I totally forgot to put that in my post. Yes, I am putting logos with transparent backgrounds in front of colored rectangles. That's how I noticed that this one logo is showing up with a white background. The weird thing is that the other two logos are fine. I did find a different version of this logo and this one works fine. The one that works fine is a JPG and the one that shows up with a white background is a JPG.

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