... 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 to chop a picture shape into multiple tiles. The thinking was to improve screen response by allowing unneeded parts of an image to be deleted. But it would also be a great help in printing picture shapes on the templates. So maybe that's something to look at for 218b. Martin. posted: 3 Jan 2018 12:49 from: Tony W One ...