For conventional printing - CMYK on a printing press - 300dpi, same size (A4 image for A4 print) is the minimum. Never ever tried it in Word! No point going above 72dpi as Word prints the preview and not the information from the file anyway... I'd do 2 images - one at 72 dpi as a positional and import this into Word, and one at the right size 300dpi. And give your printer/bureau both with the Word file on a Zip or CD. Do you know someone with Pagemaker (boo) or Quark (ok if I have to). They would eat it up. Why import into Word? Are you adding text? Make sure that you convert it to CMYK from the RGB render in Poser