convert images to pdf
Use convert
program (it is an executable installed as part of Imagemagick suite of tools):
convert "*.{png,jpeg}" -quality 100 outfile.pdf
In general case you can combine more files into one pdf file with including them inside {}
and separate them with a single comma.
adding -quality VALUE
to keep quality after conversion.
convert "*.{ext1,ext2,ext3,...}" -quality 100 outfile.pdf
I used the two sample pages you provided and printed them using cups-pdf printer resulting in two pdf files.
Then I used pdfsam to combine pdf files in one. I see no problem in the result.
Edit: I just saw that you have many files to process, you can use print-selected script in Nautilus described here
If all the images are in the same folder and have the same extension you could do the following:
Convert images to pdf:
ls *.tif | xargs -I% convert % %.pdf
Note: Note that if they are named 1...tif; 2...tif; 10...tif do
ls -1v
for numbered files
Merge pdf files into one pdf and remove single page pdfs:
pdftk *.pdf cat output merged.pdf && rm *.tif.pdf