SIMPLE APEX PRINTING IN 4.0

Question: Using APEX 4.0 I am finding that I am having a world of hurt trying to get very BASIC printing setup. I am not using BI and do not need PDF or RFT formats. Essentially, I would like to be able to create Interactive reports that do three things:
1) Provide a "Print" link for the user
2) Pass any interactive parameters to the print so the filtering and such are maintained
3) Disable the Interactive Search bar on the printer friendly page.
Working through the documentation I can't find any clear references to just printing a report on a page. I have found how to setup the printing for using the APEX_ADMIN site and I have found the "printer freindly" template and have been able to work with that. The rest is coming across very cryptic.
I thought these would be simple but every solution I try seems very "gummy". I have added a print link to the Navigation Bar but it always references the only a single page. So I added a print button to each page (which was easy) but it doesn't pass the Search and Filter parameters to the printer friendly view of the data.
I have also noticed that only about 2 pages of output go to the printer when I have about 800 records on the screen (that one is weird).
I am a very good PL/SQL programmer so if the solution is code-based, please hit me with it.
My platform is APEX 4.2 on Windows 2003 Server - Oracle XE
Any help would be great!
Thanks

Thanks for everyones help.
I have basically figured out the system now. here is what I have (maybe help someone else).
ON THE SERVER
1) I installed a standalong OC4J instance on my server
2) I connect to the admin control panel (port 8888 was the default)
3) I deployed toe FOP war file that comes with APEX
4) I started the OC4J
IN APEX ADMIN:
I logged into the APEX_ADMIN app and set the printing up in the Manage Instance section:
MANAGE INSTANCE ---> INSTANCE SETTINGS --> REPORT PRINTING TAB
STANDARD
HTTP
LOCALHOST
8888
/fop/apex_fop.jsp
Then I saved that.
IN APEX:
I The created a simple app with a Interactive Report. I edited the report to allow the DOWNLOAD section to use PDF.
When I ran the report and used the ACTION menu in the search bar, I was able to download to PDF and print the result. All parameters set in the search passed right through!
I then created another report of the "classic" variety and enabled printing and set the results for INLINE and PDF. That also worked fine.
Hope this helps.

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