Printing versus Exporting PDF differences

I'm trying to export a pages version of business cards (Avery5371 format) to PDF so I can have it printed at Staples.  Interesting enough, the results I get differ between using Print>PDF, and export to PDF (which differ by the quality selected).  In general the use of Print includes all pieces of the page at some sort of level of quality, but use of export provides different (wrong) outputs for each resolution.  So it seems that the pdf conversion software is different for these functions and the new export function doesn't work.  Anyone else have any insight into this problem?  Do you know the quality of the print pdf function on the scale used by export pdf?

Printing should produce the same result as Export > PDF > Best
ie bitmap resolution is unaltered in pdf output except for the system generated transparency which by default is 72 dpi.
It did using Pages '09 and previous versions of OSX, but many things have changed in Mavericks and Pages 5.2.
My suspicion is that Pages '09 probably still does the better job in Mavericks but I haven't done the comprehensive test of all options yet.
…when I have the time and take the sharp blow to the head that will convince me Apple isn't a lost cause.
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