Print in Black and White, NOT GRAYSCALE!

Hello,
I'm trying to print on my Mac in Black and White -- NOT grayscale. The printer I'm using is a thermal printer that prints on heat-sensitive card-stock (a DataMax E-4203 printer) and when I print bar-codes on there the edges of the bar-codes are "fuzzy" as the Mac tries to convert it into a grayscale image instead of a pure black-and-white image. With the edges being fuzzy instead of crisp, the bar-code scanner device I have simply cannot read the bar-codes. If I use the software on a Windows machine, it prints the bar-codes perfectly, because in Windows I can set the printer to be Black and White, instead of Grayscale..
So, on a Mac (Mac Pro, OS X 10.7.3) how do I set it to print in pure Black and White, not Grayscale?
Thanks for any help you can give me,
Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA

You're taking a rather large loss on a new computer and spending the money on another one to fix one issue on an obscure piece of hardware? Do this instead.
1) Cancel the order on the Dell.
2) Use Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac Pro. WAY less expensive to buy a copy of Win 7 to run on your Mac than the money you're planning to flush down the drain.
3) Get on the lazy butts of the company that make your thermal printer to write a Mac driver that has all of the same settings and features of the Windows driver. Which may not be easy as their site marks the printer you have as discontinued, though still supported.
DataMax has one heck of a crappy site. I've looked around a dozen pages and can't find something as simple as print drivers to download.
Yes, DataMax's web-site is awful... But they don't support the Mac at all, so even if their web-site was great, you'd never find Mac drivers to download... The Mac driver for this printer comes from a company called the Peninsula Group, and they write drivers for dozens of different thermal printers... They claim that they cannot write a driver that has all the features of the DataMax Windows driver, because of limitations of the CUPS printing system on the Mac... I claim that's B.S., but how am I going to prove otherwise?
I considered running the Mac in Windows BootCamp mode all the time -- but then what's the point in owning a Mac? Originally I was happy to be making the switch from PC to Mac... But everything (not just printing, but nearly everything I do) is more difficult on a Mac... Owning this machine has been the worst computing experience I've ever had... No joke.. I've never had such trouble doing what I want to do... Nothing works the way it should work. Nothing.
If I had been using Macs all along, then perhaps I'd feel differently... But everything is so different on a Mac, that I just can't seem to get used to it... For crying out loud, the Home and End keys don't even work right!! I hit End and I expect the cursor to go to the end of the LINE, not the end of the DOCUMENT! (End of the document is what Ctrl+End is for, dammit!) What the **** is up with that?! And scrolling is wrong, too... It scrolls up when I pull down on the mouse-scroll. Everything is backwards on the Mac... I've truly grown to hate it the more I use it... I'll not be buying another Mac, if I can help it... Wish I'd never bought this one... Call it a very expensive lesson learned...
L.

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