Blurry Print Images

I am working on a project right now and am using 2 different programs for various images (Numbers and Finale Notepad). Using the "Print" dialog, I print everything to PDF and then import the PDFs into Pages.
In pages, everything looks fine. When I print the Pages document on paper, all of my images are blurry and basically unusable. This seems to happen whether I import the entire PDF or use Grab to get a snapshot of a portion of the image.
Any ideas on how I can get an imported image that not only looks clean in Pages but prints cleanly?
Thanks!

In Pages, everything looks fine.
On the digital graphic display, you mean. Your digital graphic display has a resolution of around 100 dots per inch. Your digital graphic printer has a resolution of 600 dots per inch up to 1200 dots per inch. Your digital graphic press has a resolution of up to 2500 dots per inch.
This seems to happen whether I import the entire PDF or use Grab to get a snapshot of a portion of the image.
Grab and other utilities that capture the current application window or the complete Finder as a graphic render at the resolution of the digital graphic display. You can check the resolution for yourself by opening your capture in Apple Preview and selecting Tools > Get Info.
Similarly if you capture the low resolution interface graphics in an application window through the Quartz PDF environment. You don't have more resolution to put onto the printer than you had to begin with when you put it onto your display.
There is a trick with an interpolation algorithm available in Photoshop. The trick was recommended by Dov Isaacs, Adobe's quality assurance manager, for screen grabs. I don't know how the 'Use Interpolation' algorithm works, but I have often used it.
/hh

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