Why is my Brother printer not printing fonts in a PDF correctly?

I have a Brother HL-L2380DW printer, which is connected wirelessly to my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS desktop. Typically, I can print from it without issue, but presently, it is not printing a certain PDF correctly.

If I view the PDF in Evince, the fonts display correctly. When I print, however, all the embedded fonts fail to render, and instead are printed in a Courier-like monospace font.

I have installed all of the fonts embedded in the document. They still fail to render correctly when printing.

This is the output of pdffonts file.pdf:

name type encoding emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
CFSPKS+ACaslonPro-Regular Type 1C MacRoman yes yes no 17 0
CFSPKS+ACaslonPro-Regular Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 18 0
NTVBOE+Geogrotesque-SemiBold Type 1C MacRoman yes yes no 21 0
GGSUWO+ACaslonPro-Italic Type 1C MacRoman yes yes no 31 0
GGSUWO+ACaslonPro-Italic Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 32 0
IJBFJW+Geogrotesque-Bold Type 1C MacRoman yes yes no 38 0

When I previewed the PDF in Firefox, then printed from there, the fonts rendered correctly but printed at a low resolution—the image quality was "fuzzy". That was not ideal for me, so I'd like to figure out how to print from Evince so these fonts render.

I'd appreciate any help to troubleshoot and solve this issue. Thank you.

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