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Eric: You should pick up two other packages for working with your graphics. AdPro (or even TAD, for that matter) has an excellent scaling tool in addition to all of its other goodies (like color to greyscale, dithering patterns and on and on) ProDraw has a utility called TRACE which will turn your bitmaps into structured clips that can then be imported into ProDraw and saved as EPS images… bye bye jaggies. Anytime you change the size of a bitmap from within PageStream, you're going to get unpredictable results… moire patterns & jaggies, etc. Scale the image outside of PageStream to the size you need and then for dot matrix output, appply a halftone screen (if it's a bitmap greyscale) of something like 63 LPI. It takes some experimenting but you can get outstanding results. BTW, softLogic is due out, RSN, with a structured drawing program that is supposed to also have a TRACE type utility in it. Hope this helps.. – Whapping from the North Coast Michael