Thin white lines appearing across text when opening PDF in photoshop

Hello, I had recently asked a question about having issues with my transparency flattening for printing.
So I moved away from that and am now using X4-2008 to make my PDFs. Everything was great, except my printer said he prints from photoshop and so I should check all documents in photoshop before sending them.
But lo and behold what shows up (but DOESN'T show up in acrobat)
Thanks in advance! And before you ask, yes the text is on a different layer than any of the transparencies. After I kept getting this problem i kept trying to figure it out.

You are giving him a PDF file.
The problem is that he is literally ruining the content of the file by converting the PDF file to a raster image in Photoshop and then printing that, in other words it looks like your printer is using Photoshop as a “poor man's RIP!” The transparency effects in your PDF/X-4 file are being flattened at whatever resolution your printer sets the Photoshop image to be. In fact, transparency blending should be performed at the printer's RIP where such flattening artifacts that you are seeing are avoided.
You say you don't have your choice of printer?
Would you say you don't have your choice of physician if a doctor told you he was going to do an appendectomy by operating through your nose? Would you claim you don't have your choice of physician?
Professional incompetence is professional incompetence. If you have a “printer” who is really printing PDF files by opening them in Photoshop and printing directly from Photoshop to the device somehow, you are dealing with demonstrable incompetence!
The advice to find another printer is the best advice that we (including Adobe) can provide to you!
          - Dov

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