Is this the ledcontrol.h you are using?
https://playground.arduino.cc/Main/LedControl/
I don't see a "printByte()" function there.
I think you will need to find an 8x8 matrix font and send the 8 rows of the digit using
for (byte rowIndex=0; rowIndex<8; rowIndex++)
{
lc.setRow(displayIndex, rowIndex, DigitFont[digit][rowIndex]);
}
Maybe this part of the 'basic' font from GitHub - dhepper/font8x8: 8x8 monochrome bitmap fonts for rendering will work for you.
const byte DigitFont[10][8] =
{
{ 0x3E, 0x63, 0x73, 0x7B, 0x6F, 0x67, 0x3E, 0x00}, // U+0030 (0)
{ 0x0C, 0x0E, 0x0C, 0x0C, 0x0C, 0x0C, 0x3F, 0x00}, // U+0031 (1)
{ 0x1E, 0x33, 0x30, 0x1C, 0x06, 0x33, 0x3F, 0x00}, // U+0032 (2)
{ 0x1E, 0x33, 0x30, 0x1C, 0x30, 0x33, 0x1E, 0x00}, // U+0033 (3)
{ 0x38, 0x3C, 0x36, 0x33, 0x7F, 0x30, 0x78, 0x00}, // U+0034 (4)
{ 0x3F, 0x03, 0x1F, 0x30, 0x30, 0x33, 0x1E, 0x00}, // U+0035 (5)
{ 0x1C, 0x06, 0x03, 0x1F, 0x33, 0x33, 0x1E, 0x00}, // U+0036 (6)
{ 0x3F, 0x33, 0x30, 0x18, 0x0C, 0x0C, 0x0C, 0x00}, // U+0037 (7)
{ 0x1E, 0x33, 0x33, 0x1E, 0x33, 0x33, 0x1E, 0x00}, // U+0038 (8)
{ 0x1E, 0x33, 0x33, 0x3E, 0x30, 0x18, 0x0E, 0x00} // U+0039 (9)
};