Text next to pictures gets bolder when printed directly from publisher vs. printed from pdf-export

[jscriba]

Hi, I've seen this issue through multiple versions of publisher on different printers:
When text is sitting next to pictures on a page I find that parts of words of whole paragraphs appear bolder when printed out directly from Publisher. When I export a pdf first and print the page from Apple preview, the the problem disappears.

I'm printing on the same printer (Xerox Versalink C7120) using the same printer profile. I've seen this in a Versalink C405, too. Look at the scans of a pdf-printout and the direct print from Publisher. On the bottom right the type's boldness changes in the middle the words "shade" and "for". The whole paragraph in the bottom third of the page appears semibold compared to what it should look like in the pdf.

Does anybody have any idea what is causing this and how to avoid it? Round-tripping to pdf for printing is somewhat cumbersome and shouldn't be necessary, should it?

Xerox Scan_20230418155527.pdf

[MikeTO]

Hi, could you please upload the afpub file for this so we can investigate it?

Thanks