Hi Hans
I used texlive (2012) before standalone. There was never a problem. Same editor, same viewer. With standalone there is a problem just for printing from viewer "evince". I can print the very same document with lpr (command-line) without problem. I don't think there is a real problem with the pdf. "evince" manipulates somehow the pdf-document before sending to printer. There the error occurs. Strange that the output from context in texlive didn't have this problem.
Has the output-format changed since last year?
Thanks
Christian