Bitmaps in a labview report?

Hi all, I have been developing an application for major diesel engine
control and testing and have been using the new reports' vi's in Labview to
generated printed reports of a given run. We would now like to include a
graphic in the report (eg a logo) in the form of a bitmap or other image
type. Does anyone know how to include graphics in reports?
while I am on the topic, does anyone have any vi's for controlling the
printer port? eg basic control like toggling one of the data lines?
Cheers
John

Thanks for the suggestions, they are much appreciated
cheers
john
MaxMar wrote in message
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> I don't know about the report feature, but you can set up a
> subVI to act as a printed report by selecting the "print when
> complete" option in the VI setup. Cut & paste the logo onto
> the panel or load it into a picture control (if you have ver 5.1
> or the picture control toolkit).
>
> You can use the "out port" function in the advanced>>memory
> palette to write values to the printer port. If you're in
> Windows, check the device manager in the system properties to
> get the memory address. Go to "Ports", select the printer port
> and go to the properties. The resourc
es tab will show the
> Input/Output range (typically starting a 0x378). Use this
> memory address with the "out port" function to control the data
> and control lines on the printer port. If memory serves correct,
> the first byte of the printer port address is the data lines.
> Could someone else confirm this? Also, anyone have the info for
> other platforms?
>
> Pinouts for the parallel port:
> http://www.senet.com.au/~cpeacock/parallel.htm
>
>
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