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Was the difference in the depth of the burn? If so, then it’s likely working as expected.

You can read more about various image modes and how they work in LightBurn documentation:
Image Mode - LightBurn Software Documentation

Read this Topic on how grayscale maps to min/max. This was meant for diode lasers but the technical aspects are the same:

Do you recall where you read this? Normally I would have expected an emulation to target either GRBL or GRBL-M2, not a relatively infrequently used implementation.