Access Image on Report - Poor Quality

[MrSpadMan]

I am creating an Access report to print wallet-sized membership cards with a photo on them.

The photo quality is bad in Print Preview and bad when it prints out.

However, the photo looks great when I display it on a form.

In the image control's properties I have tried Stretch, Zoom, and Clip to no avail.

The photos are sized much smaller than their original size which would seem to be a problem but why do they show just fine on a form?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[JHB]

Try changing the setting described in the article.
http://accesscodetips.blogspot.dk/2008/10/settings-ms-access-2007-poor-image.html

 

[MrSpadMan]

JHB - thanks very much. That worked fine for previewing the card before printing and greatly improved the quality of the image on the actual card.

This is a special card printer, just for cards. When I print any image on it using Paint, the image that prints on the card is beautiful. However, when I print the image via Access the quality diminishes.

Do you have any ideas about this?

Thank you in advance.

 

[JHB]

What file type does an image have - (jpg, bmp ...)?
Try to put in a image with the bmp file type in you database, to see if printing out the image is better.

 

[MrSpadMan]

These are jpg's but there are already thousands of them so there's no going back.

 

[JHB]

It was only to find out if bmp file type print out better.
I think the jpg could easy be converted to bmp using some VBA code.

 

[MrSpadMan]

Thanks for all your help.