Just to contradict the responses above ;)

A quick google for "inline image" shows up this page: http://www.zopezen.org/Members/zopista/News_Item.2004-04-14.5620 which links to this article: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0305h/

It worked for me in firefox, but didn't work in IE, but then that's probably because I've got all the Ie security settings switched on.

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</html>

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in thread Printing an Image directly to HTML by rsiedl

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