Transparent space being printed as white

What is causing transparent space around an image, in a PDF, to be printed as white when a proof is produced? Looks fine on screen and when printed on standard printers, just shows up when a proof is produced from digital press printer

The page in InDesign is made up the following way:
Background image (PSD), image laid on top to the right (tiff), logo (PSD) laid on top, to the bottom left (this is the problem file), with a text layer.
In answer to Steve, a screen capture would be pointless as it only shows up when the print shop runs off a proof. Printing via a home colour laser jet or Toshiba (one of the big colour copier jobs0 or a bog standard mon laserjet shows no problem. I did try exporting the page as EPS and was told that the logo was dropped out.
Running Win 7 Pro and InDesign CS6. Image below to show the layout

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