Artifacts when printing .pdf created from publisher

I have some documents in microsoft Publisher 2007, i need them to be converted to pdf to send to people and for them to be able to print them. but when i convert them to pdf i loose a lot of quality all the sharp edges become blockey and fuzzy and then when i go to print one of these documents i get artifacts around the graphics and the back ground on some pictures that should be coming up white comes out a light blue.
i have set the conversion to the highest level quality and this helps the fuzzyness alittle but i still get the artifacts
any one know why this is happening?

This is what happened to me:
We are doing a job for someone that uses Publisher.  They gave us some PDF files saved out of Publisher with a Microsoft addin that lets you publish as PDF and has a preset for a 'commercial press'.  I had a look at the files, checked all elements were CMYK, checked resolution of images, checked that text was black only, printed off a digital proof, and before we printed the job did a high end ripped proof.  All looked fine.
We printed the job and all looked OK, some of the blacks weren't that great though, but still acceptable.
The next day the ink had dried and all areas in images that were supposed to be black were an insipid grey colour, compared to the bits around them that were for example 100C 100M.  What had happened is that Publisher had performed some extreme under-colour removal, so that anything black was 100K only and appeared weak, but the gradients leading up to it were multi colour and so appeared much stronger.  Of course now when we look at a separation proof we can see what was happening, but unless you check that, you just have to 'know' that you can't use that method of printing from Publisher.  Proofs and Press-pass looks fine, but once dry....  It's an expensive experience for us, as we're reprinting the job for no extra, because it hasn't come out like the proofs we supplied.

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