Word XP printing problems

Woden

Howdy

Have to print a report for college which contains a large number of graphs copied and pasted from a program called mathcad. Trouble is on printing i get the outline of the graph but not the waves, points, lines etc on the graph. Initially i tried the printer troubleshooter and had some success as on copying the documents into wordpad they printed fine and hence the trouble shooter told me it was a problem with Word and not the printer. Tried Words help system about getting graphics to print, implemented all there suggestions but to no avail. Also updated office xp with all the sp's availabe and no effect. Does anyone know the cause of this problem? or have had a similar experience?

points to note
pasted jpg's print fine
tried it on two other printers in college and the same happened
and i can't get acrobat to convert the document to a pdf either but not sure if this connected.

thanks data

Pimp Ninja

If the graph is small enough to fit in a full screen, do a screen grab of it, using print screen, paste it into paint, save it as a .bmp and then insert picture from file in word, browsing to the bitmap that you got from the screen dump...

Woden

tried copying in and pasting it into paint, but the wave on the graph was not visible when it was pasted

Woden

interesting however copied a sine wave directly from mathcad into paint and saved it as a bitmap, it printed fine then from word. i could probably replace all them like that but theres about 70 bloody graphs

Woden

Ninja dispite my bitching i'm going bmp those images and sort it out, just to say thanks very much you saved me a good bit of hassle.