Acer Spin laptop running Windows 10 Home, Brother MFC J5620 .... All settings for portrait but printer delivers landscape (and vice versa)

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This problem started this past summer (out of the blue?).

The printer is networked with a desktop PC running Windows 10 Pro and there are no problems with any of the desktop sourced printing. This occurs only for the laptop, regardless of document source: Word, Excel, Internet, PDF, etc. and was not a problem in the years using the laptop prior to the summer.

I have spent 3 or 4 hours reading and doing trial and error to try and fix this - no success

I have not downloaded any third party software or done anything from the command prompt

I have confirmed Windows 10 is updated
I have confirmed all the settings for the printer are portrait
I have uninstalled and re-installed the printer

I have set the printer to default (it is the only physical printer)

The document will show in portrait in the print preview


I can use Microsoft Print to PDF and the PDF views in portrait. When I send it to the printer, it prints in landscape

I have switched settings to landscape and it then prints in portrait.
I have returned all settings back to portrait - it prints landscape.

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