Text printing black

I have a problem whereby faint text (as in a textbox designed to handwritten over) is printing out as black (and therefore unable to be handwritten over). I have a canon laser printer. Any idea what the problem is?
In the PDF the text "cardholder sign here" is faint. But in a  printed hardcopy it is black.

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