Printing help -- Best approach

Hi, I've been working on a database application and have been having trouble finding the best way to print the table (with some header info or something). Since I already wrote an export to html function I've been using that as a basis for printing. As of right now basically adding the html code to a styled text area and printing that. It prints, but gets cutoff and doesn't handle extra pages.
I'm been searching around the web and following the sun tutorial quite a bit, but I'm not sure I'm even taking the write approach to printing the data from the DB. I really just want it to take the info from a query and print it to a printer. Can someone point me in the right direction or give me some suggestions?

Thanks, I had seen something about the netbeans iReport plugin before. I'll take a look at a bit more, but this is probably the way to go. The report doesn't have to have specific page breaks, but it does need a heading on each page.

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