I am using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional (version 7.0.9).

I am printing a Word document (Word 2002 SP3) to PDF using Acrobat.
The Word document contains tables with borders on the cells. Printing
to a printer directly from Word, the cell borders and text are crisp.

After printing the Word document to PDF (using File | Print and
choosing Adobe PDF as the printer) or converting to PDF (using Adobe
PDF | Convert to Adobe PDF from the Word menu bar), and subsequently
printing *that* PDF to the printer, the cell borders are crisp.

However, after adding a Watermark or Background (tried both) of the
word "ORIGINAL" in dark blue, 50% opacity, -2.4 inches from vertical
center, and 2 inches from horizontal center, the cell borders and text
are fuzzy when printed to the printer. By fuzzy, I mean that I can
see bumps along the cell borders, and can see individual dots on the
letters of text.

I do not believe this has anything to do with my printer resolution,
since it only happens after a watermark/background is applied in
Acrobat. Has anyone else had this problem? Any workarounds? Fixes?

Liana Ottaviano
Bend, Oregon