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Wil: Here's the simplest way to get graphics to print: Load LightWave. From the images panel, load your framestore. Then, go the effects panel, and make the framestore the background image. Next, go to the camera menu. First, you want to change the resolution of your output image. Change it to "Print Resolution". Next, you need to change the Pixel Aspect Ratio to "Square Pixels". This will give you a 2560×1960 image output. You don't need to turn on any antialiasing or anything else. Go to the Record panel and turn on "Save RGB Images". You'll be prompted for a filename. Last, go to the scene menu and enter "1" in the last frame requester. That tells LightWave just to render the single frame. Depending on which version of LightWave you have, you may be able to "Use Fewer Segments" (Version 3.1) in the camera menu, if you have sufficient RAM available. In any case, hit the "Render" button, select "automatic" and go for lunch (or to sleep, depending on the speed of your system). When it's finished, you'll have a very large IFF24 file. You can take it into ADPro for conversion, but you have to have lots of RAM. (I have 16MB and can't use ADPro for this) The other solution would be to use IMageFX, which uses virtual memory. You can then convert it to another format. I usually use JPEG at 95% quality. This compacts the image quite well, and I've found no noticeable loss in the image quality. If you can't use the above method, some PC and MAC image processing programs the printer may have do support loading Amiga IFF24 format images. Lastly, you have to get the image to the print house. Depending on the image, you can usually fit 1 image on a low-density floppy. Use an IBM formatted floppy and CrossDos (WB 2.04+) to copy the image file to the floppy. If you have an Amiga Hi-density drive, you can use that. But, without JPEG'ing the file, it'll probably be to big to fit on even a High Density floppy. But you're not dead yet! ADPro includes programs called "Splitz" and "Joinz" which allow you to split up an image file over more than one disk. There are also IBM and MAC versions included with the program, so you can split up the files, take them to the printer along with the version of Splitz and Joinz for their computer platform. Then you'll be in business. Short of that, you might be able to send the image to the print house via modem, thereby eliminating all the disk stuff. A final note: The captured video (i.e. the framestore) had a fixed resolution of 752×480, so don't expect to get a magazine-quality print image from it. However, if the capture is clean, it should be acceptable. Hope this helps, and doesn't just confuse you! :-> Trent/ReAnimators