Pages, Cocoabooklet and printing

I create our church bulletin in pages and then use cocoabooklet to create the pdf for printing. We have recently started outsourcing our printing. The first page (front and back of the bulletin) is in color and for some reason the fonts are darker and slightly blurred when they print it. The inside black and white pages look great.
On one occasion there was one paragraph on the back page that looked crisp and correct but the rest blurred. I cannot figure out why. Since it wasn't the whole page affected, I thought something in my file was different about the fonts chosen, but it's not. It's all True Type Font (Californian FB) and I can't see any formatting differences throughout the page. It prints crisp on my printer (though I have a hard time getting the color to match the screen).
Anyone have any ideas or a similar issue with fonts bleeding/blurring?

It sounds like you have used Transparency or Reflections/Shadows which also use transparency.
Transparency gets rendered at a very low 72 dpi bitmap in .pdfs output using OSX's ColorSync. This was introduced to make life difficult for users trying to print commercially, but to not spoil the surprise Apple has chosen not to warn them.
Do not use transparency in any form is the safest way out.
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