mail won't print embedded graphics?

Running 10.12 of sierra. I have an email that uses a graphic as it's message, i've had these a thousand times before, I can print them as I see them. Now it shows up as a blank page with a header only in print preview and that's exactly what I get. Tried saving the email as a PDF... get the same thing a header with nothing else. I haven't changed any settings but I have applied the recent update.

Basically what I see I do not get if I try to print it. Since the mail app uses the preview app to preview such things, it could very well be preview that is to blame. I can use grab and get a screen capture of it, but that's a lot of work that I never had to do before.

What gives?

Pam