Printing transparent marker images

Hello,
I'm using transparent PNG images (baloons) as markers for features of interest on my map application. Everything's just fine until we try to print from the browser. The marker images appear with blocks around the border, defeating the purpose of the transparency, and making things look rather messy.
Has anyone had luck with printing transparent markers ? I am using GIMP to create the transparent PNG files. I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon creating various combinations, including transparent GIF files, indexed and non-indexed PNG's, etc...still no luck. Again, everything is fine when viewing on-screen -- the problems arise only when printing.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks!

FYI, this is fixed within MVMapView print() in one of the latest patch releases.

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