diff --git a/library/components/poster/PosterWall.vue b/library/components/poster/PosterWall.vue
index af23d345b..0ce8eff5d 100644
--- a/library/components/poster/PosterWall.vue
+++ b/library/components/poster/PosterWall.vue
@@ -610,11 +610,12 @@ async function exportPoster(item) {
       const format = props.posterAction === 'print' ? 'letter' : (item.sheet === '3x3' ? '3x3' : '3x4')
       const html = await Promise.resolve().then(() => props.sheet(item, format, { onStep: step })).catch(() => '')
       if (html) {
-        const { rasterPoster, looksRendered, hasExternalImages } = await import('@map/packet/poster-raster.js')
-        // ★ A SHEET WITH PHOTOS PRINTS AS ITS OWN DOCUMENT (the large side-lane sheets): a raster cannot carry a
-        // photo from its own host (poster-raster.js says why), and the sheet's own @page is its true size
-        // (60in 96in), where an image of it would be shrunk onto letter. A download still rasterises, without them.
-        if (props.posterAction === 'print' && hasExternalImages(html)) { await printSheetDocument(html); return }
+        const { rasterPoster, looksRendered } = await import('@map/packet/poster-raster.js')
+        // ★ A PRINTED SHEET IS ITS OWN DOCUMENT, never an image of itself. The sheet is vector HTML/SVG with its own
+        // @page; printed as is, the print is the same drawing (crisper), carries any photo from its own host (a raster
+        // cannot: poster-raster.js says why), and skips the raster entirely: on a phone that decode + draw + encode was
+        // the last multi-second freeze before the print dialog. A DOWNLOAD still rasterises (it needs an image file).
+        if (props.posterAction === 'print') { step('print'); await printSheetDocument(html); return }
         step('print')
         // let the step paint before the raster starts: the SVG decode below holds the page while it draws
         await new Promise((r) => (typeof requestAnimationFrame === 'function' ? requestAnimationFrame(() => setTimeout(r, 0)) : setTimeout(r, 0)))