I notice that no one has addressed your question ... When you say so I saved a copy as PDF so I could print it from another location, but the PDF had the same colouring issues that the SVG did do you mean that it printed the same way, or that it looked faded on screen? And, to answer this question ...

Wow! Thank you all for working on this for me. This is much more than I was expecting. :) I got the original PDF from here: http://www.elli.com/blog/bridal-shower-invitation-printable/ But I wanted to change some details in the text more than just editting the PDF would let me. I removed the text I ...

I've attached the .SVG.

I had a PDF that I wanted to add some text to. I imported the PDF to Inkscape. It looked fine and I did my edits, but when I printed it, the colours looked faded. I assumed I was running out of ink, so I saved a copy as PDF so I could print it from another location, but the PDF had the same colourin...