Making a form with a non printing background

I need to make a form for an overprint on a 4-up postcard sheet. The postcard is preprinted, but I want to show it in the PDF form so that the user knows where the data is going to be when they print out the form. So basically I need everything but the form data to be non printing. I tried looking for something like this in the Help but I don't know what keywords to use to look for this. Is it possible?
I have Acrobat Pro 8.

You could use the background option to import the comp and then fade
back using the opacity level - this would then provide a background
which (if configured) would show inside the PDF but not print ..
Jon

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1) Is it possible to hv a smart form with out having the Print/driver prog.?
coz, I checked in TNAPR tbl, I did not find any entry!
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