Reply To: Printing without tiff images from PDF document

Just because they are on the master pages does not mean that they are on separate layers. It will be a bit easier to put them on a background layer because they are on the master pages. Give this a try.

1. Open the layers panel.
2. Create a new layer named Background and drag it under the existing layer or layers.
3. for each master page, select the background image and in the layers panel drag the little colored box next to the layer name down to the background layer. This should move the selected image to the background layer.
4. after you've moved all your background image to a new layer you can show or hide the background layer. So, from indesign, you can either export two PDFs, one with the layer hidden, one with it visible in, or just export one file with acrobat layers (see my first response).

Hope it's not too much extra work for you. Enjoy!

Joel