Electronic forms on iPad?

ipad noob question. bear with me...
I'm thinking of purchasing an ipad for work. I have several electronic forms (like checksheets) that I would like to load to the ipad, and then print them as I fill them out. Is this possible? I've looked at the printing issue, and see printing is supported from inside certain apps only. Also, would the ipda's ability to open pdf forms mean that if the form is a checklist, it'd allow me to fill out the form and save it? If not, is there an ipad specific app that would allow me to create forms, fill them out, and print them?
Any suggestions are appreciated.

Celliott147, thanks for the help and advice.
What you are suggesting has already been written. It's Called The Acrobat Reader and has a complete back engine and server for collecting, exporting, and connecting to an SQL database.
Every company has Time Sheets for its employees. As you know, the key to productivity is to collect the data at the source and be done with it, subject to controls.
The data has to be integrated to the databases in real time, so that Job Numbers, Employees, Job Cost codes, POs, Materials used, production achieved can be delt with and updated without the need for secondary key entry.
Here we have the perfect from factor, the iPad, that can be carried into the field, connected to the internet and remote databases. All that is needed is support for free software that is on 85% of all computers in the world.
If I started coding today with a team of engineers, to create all of the functions required, all of that work would be for not with the first platform that fully supports the Acrobat Reader.

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