[thelist] Print font-size / Netscape 7 versus IE 6

[Sam Carter]

I'm revisiting an old issue (for me).  Netscape 7 prints a few points larger
than IE 6.  I'd like to find a solution.
 
If the CSS media=print font-size is specified as font-size: 12pt, Netscape 7
is always larger (I've set the print scaling on both IE and NS to match).
So much larger, I'd guess Netscape (not IE) is at fault.
 
If I use font-size: 76%, then both browsers print very nearly identically.
 
I thought points were the "universal" setting for printed matter.  Is there
a bug in NS 7 handling points or my mistake?
 
Sam
 
CSS CLIP I'm using:
 
<style type="text/css">
body {font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size:76%}
</style>
<style type="text/css" media="print">
body { font-size: 12pt;}
</style>