Huge files when printing to postscript printers

Hi!
When i print reports containing images i get extremely large files. a one-page-report containing a 150 kB jpg image gets rendered to a 70 MB (!!) *.ps file (also when i send it to the printer directly). why is that the case? when i do the same in windows i get a 3.8 MB sized file which is perfectly acceptable. ATM i am using a workaround...a gs shellscript included in TK_PRINT that converts the output from reports to pdf and pipes it to the printer command but is there no more elegant (and of course faster) way to achieve smaller-sized output from reports?
thanks very much in advance

i forgot to add:
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