Windows 10: Windows 10 Brother printer profiles overwritten by applications

Hello,

I'm currently trying to figure out a solution to make printing a lot more comfortable for myself. Sadly I'm stuck a bit and also not sure if I'm doing it correctly.

The background:

I'm printing quite a lot of different styled documents. For example landscape single sided black and white color (let us call it ProfileA) or portrait double-sided / duplex colored (ProfileB). I've got most of those documents as a PDF file and for every print I have to set the settings within the PDF reader.

What I've tried so far:

My printer is a Brother printer and the driver software is allowing me to set different profiles. So my idea was to add the printer with different names and driver setting to select the correct printer in the print dialog and I hoped that the print will get the setting set in the driver.

Adding multiple printer(names) with different driver settings wasn't a problem. In the Windows Printer dialog I've got multiple printers available and if I check their driver settings the correct profile is set and saved.

The problem:

Although the printer settings do look correct it seems like the PDF reader application is overwriting the driver settings with its own print settings. So a printout never looks like intended but just like the default settings within the application.

So my question are:

1. Is my wish even possible?
2. Am I missing something or am I doing something wrong with the settings?
3. What are possible solutions for my problem?

I'm kinda out of ideas and my online research has only led me to a software called Fineprint which is supposed to give me exactly the behavior I want. But I'm pretty sure it is somehow possible to do this with Windows itself.

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