Pages doesn't print, pdfs do

I have the newest OS, an iMac and a Brother printer. It all worked great two days ago and before. The printer is about three months old.
Today I needed to print some Pages documents and the print screen runs through all the steps indicating that it is connected to the printer, the documents are printing and then disappears from the print screen. It all looks perfectly normal. But nothing comes out of the printer and I just get a second or two of the sound that starts when paper is just being fed into the printer.
I restarted everything and still nothing.
I am using a wireless connection to the printer, and haven't tried using a USB. And, like I said there was no problem just a day or two ago. I haven't changed any settings on my iMac or on the printer.
Then I tried turning the Pages document into a pdf and they printed fine, which must indicate that it's a Pages problem, right?
Any ideas, please?

it appears to have been a problem within the document. I was confused because the two documents I tried both had the same problem. Other Pages stuff seems fine.

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<[email protected]> wrote:
>I have several pages that print fine in all browsers
except Firefox. Either
>they print the template only or they move the contents to
a second page leaving
>only the top image in the template on the first piece of
paper. I sometimes can
>fix the page but it is never anything I can put my finger
on as being one
>solution to all pages. Here are some things that I do
that let the page print:
>shrink a picture, change the location of the picture,
take off a text class
>designation, move a table from the top of the page to the
bottom.
>
> For example this page doesn't print properly:
>
http://www.terrauniversal.com/products/GowningProducts/garbparts2.php
>
> But when I copied the the top table with the text in it
and pasted it at the
>bottom of the page, then it does print. See this page:
>
>
http://www.terrauniversal.com/products/GowningProducts/garbparts2test.php
>
> I'd really like to know what is going on.
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