Excel 2007 to Acrobat 9 Pro cell fill / font issue

When attempting to convert a workbook from Excel 2007 to a pdf using Acrobat 9 Pro, the cell font color prints slightly lighter than the cell fill color, even when the colors are the same - amber, green or red. Never had an issue previously until now. Not visible within the file, only when printing. Any insight or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your reply Bill@VT. I am converting using the Acrobat addin in Excel. I read your e-mail and played with some of the Excel sheets. The problem seems to arise when I am converting a landscape page that has been reduced to fit on one page whether by percentage or by fit to x pages by x pages. I have tried various settings and in print preview they all look just fine but once I click the convert but the page size grows. I am wondering if this is not an Acrobat problem but rather an Excel problem.

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