I have an 8 page document with 1 thumbnail image, arial or times fonts, and
various word tables scattered throughout, that saves at approx. 400 Kb. When
sending to a printer, it balloons up to 14.5+ mb. This isn't a problem for
some of our printers, but others don't have that kind of buffer.

Why is this happening, and is there anything I can do to change it?