You are basically saying that one printer handles the superscript different than another, or what you see on your screen.
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You screen is approximately 70-120 dots per inch. Your printer is 300-2400 dots per inch. Your laser printer probably has a "print engine" that takes a high-level description of a page, e.g. Adobe or HP printer-language. The fonts stored inside your printer were designed only to be renedered at high resolution. Your screen fonts are designed to look good at 70 dpi if they have to. This accounts for differences between on-screen and printed documents.