When I print PDFs created in InDesign in Preview, the colors will print muted. PDFs created in Pages and printed in Preview print just fine.
The same InDesign document printed from within InDesign (before PDF conversion) prints fine.
The same InDesign created PDF printed from within Acrobat prints fine, too.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)
Probably a color management issue. The Adobe apps (should) have shared color settings, of which Preview may be unaware. Does your PDF have embedded color profile(s) or Output Intent color profile name? Without that, apps have to guess, and Preview’s guess/default might be different than the guess/default in the Adobe apps.
It seems there's some minor incompatibility with inDesign and Preview. since you have multiple ways to print I would opt for one of those.
You can send Apple a bug report.
Every page in a PDF may potentially have a different color space where its text may be in one color space, artwork another, images yet another, and the background could even be a spot color. This is why when you perform a Finder Get Info on a PDF, or use the Preview Info panel, you will not see a specific color space assigned to the PDF.
Preview cannot hold a candle to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, or even Acrobat Reader DC for interpreting the content of a PDF. Even the free Reader DC is more of a professional-oriented product than Preview.
Why does Preview print PDF with muted colors?
