Buy suggestion help please

Justme1

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Hello all

I need model, band-aid fix, or other solution for purchasing a printer. I'm handicapped but mobility (driver) available but of course simple questions baffle salespeople nor can I find answers in manuals prior to purchase. My sister saw text with photos printed on my prehistoric 1 side only Brother (2070 model). Images had sufficient clarity for her needs and asked me to create her small company's field manuals. But size, costs, binding, etc they want 2 sided printing. All images are black/white originals, just hit print and go, 300 setting with my antique but again, 2 sided needed. Had her buy a new Brother-HL5470DW. samples done at manual and text settings, also with density lowered as far as allowed, all at 300. All photo images print very dark, visably far inferior to my ancient printer. Visual difference is like having a scanner setting changed between black/white and grayscale. No such options (black/white or grayscale) that I find on newer printer or in its manual.

Is there a solution to use this printer, and if need return can anyone recommend another model or company ? All else fine, just lousy reproducing of the photos of her manual. All I want is a printer that will print like my dinosaur but 2 sided. Band-aid software solution welcome, grayscale and B/W not even in their manual so assume a non option. But must have 2 sided ability for bindery limitations and other aspects. Not looking for gloss photograph quality, just visibly what I had.

Forum image size limitation doesn't allow me to post a comparison of same images on same page done by the 2 printers:( But when I tried to reduce my sample to acceptable limits, the ones of the new scanner appeared with checkers as per the mentioned grayscale vs black/white scanner settings difference when scanning a black and white photo. So assume its printing black and white instead of grayscale.

Hope those beyond my skills set can advise with only my text explanation. Best wishes
 
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Justme1

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Hopefully a band-aid to the software is possible as it's apparently printing in black/white rather than reading images as grayscale. At least that what the images appear to be when I reduced to try and post a sample.

To bad the dinosaur I had didn't print both sides, produced exactly as needed except for that. :rolleyes:
 
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