Hi Don,
Thanks for your great reply, it has given me something to work with especially with the issue of images and memory.
I have done 2 things that have decreased the amount of memory used when printing, the first was to remove the watermark image and supress the underlay section.
The second was that I had a footer section that was not currently being used it contained data but no images, as I was not using it I commented out the suppression formula and left in 'true', I then uncommented the formula and the section is now displayed on the report the amount of memory used while printing reduced significantly, and memory seems to be freed up earlier, I have no idea why.
I did test with the HP printer driver and found better results than with XPS driver but not by much, I had an idea that XPS was a bit intensive but I was going for the worst case scenario.
As it seems the out of memory error is an internal CR issue with images I am happy with the amount of memory used while printing which is now approx. 250MB at its peak above previously used memory.
I have not yet had time to convert to SQL Native 10 but am planning to.
As for the out of memory issue caused by images obviously this is a great concern, I am looking to roll out my upgrade to a large user base and im lucky I have had this occurrence in a small environment first. Unhandled exceptions like that make us look very un-professional.
For now I guess the answer is to remove the images from the report?
The list of fixed issues in SP 7 only mentions:
ADAPT01691849 Performance issue when there are images in a report
Hopefully SP 8 and beyond will advise in a bit more detail the status of using images relating to out of memory exceptions.
Thanks.
Jeff.