> struggled with the quality of the decades-old printout.
barely
It sounds like this printout has deteriorated badly and was barely readable.
> struggled with the quality of the decades-old printout.
barely
It sounds like this printout has deteriorated badly and was barely readable.
If it was your standard issue cheap dot-matrix printout, it may not been particularly legible even back then.
Even if the printer itself was fine it doesn't imply the ribbon was wet enough.