Small Text when printing

When I type a message in Mail in Arial 12pt regular font, it seems smaller than it should. I tested it by printing the message, and comparing it to the same font created in Word (also in Pages, FireFox, and iWeb) showed that the text from Mail is at least 2pt smaller than the other apps.
Tested with other fonts as well.
Everything works fine in other applications. Word used to have the same issue, but I deleted the font cache and restarting fixed that.
And, yes, I have restarted both Mail and the laptop (Mbp 17").
No other apps are running.

First thing I would do is set every print job to have a preview. Go into the Windows menu, Printers folder, right click your printer icon, left click Printing Preferences, features tab, click Show preview before printing, left click Apply, finally left click Okay.
How long has this been printing small text? Did it start after updating something or installing something? If that is the case, then the change could have affected the print settings. Is it only from the web browser? Is it only from a few programs, or all programs that can print?
Printing from the internet can give mixed results. Pages can have their own encoding for printing functions, which can complicate things. I find that if I capture the portion that I want to print, and then paste it into Word (or WordPad), then it will print out much better. If there are images, several captures may be necessary to print the areas wanted properly.
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I was a support engineer for HP.
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