Printing imported screen shots

I imported some Word documents into RH 7 which included some
general .jpg images and a screen shot taken in Snag It. When
printed output was created (doc & pdf formats), both the images
and the screen capture were a little distorted and did not print
out as clearly as in the original Word document. When I used the RH
Screen Capture utility to capture the images and the screen shot,
there was no distortion when printed. Is there a setting that can
be configured to prevent this distortion or idoes RH not play nice
when converting other file types?
Thanks!
A

The distortion was slightly visible in the JPG images in the
WYSIWYG but the SnagIt images looked fine. Both types were present
in the Word doc prior to importing and have always printed out fine
in Word. The images were not added after the import.
I know the original screen capture is fine. When I captured
the same screen in RoboScreenCapture, inserted it into my Word
document before importing - it printed out without any distortion.
SnagIt saves as a .png whereas the RH version saved it as a .gif. I
did resolve the JPG issue by saving those as GIFs. That's why I
thought maybe RH has a problem converting from one format to the
other.
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WYSIWYG but the SnagIt images looked fine. Both types were present
in the Word doc prior to importing and have always printed out fine
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I know the original screen capture is fine. When I captured
the same screen in RoboScreenCapture, inserted it into my Word
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... used to be simple; isn't anymore.
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