... printer can't handle it directly, you could try creating a PDF file and printing that via your PDF reader program. If you do that, you must create only one template page at a time in each PDF file, otherwise the PDF file size will go through the roof. Here's a test print I just made. The large original image caused the system to go off into a sulk, so after 5 minutes I aborted and chopped the image into smaller sections. It then printed straight out without any delay at all: 2_022206_410000000.png I haven't ever seen the image replaced with a black rectangle, so I assume that must be something specific to your printer. If you would like to attach your image file here I will have a go printing it on my system and report the results. To include picture shapes in the printed output, select the option on the picture shapes tab: 2_022238_120000000.png regards, Martin. posted: 3 Jan 2018 12:09 from: Martin Wynne p.s. Rob, My NOD list (nice one day) includes a function ...