I've seen it happen with a 40 page document, so it may not be the 8 to 9 bit thing. There was something on that page it didn't like, in my experience usually a graphic. You could spend hours fiddling with it, it won't print.

If you have photoshop by the way, you can open the pdf in that, tell it what page, and print from there, it will be a better quality then a screen print would be.