Printing in java - text positioning

Hi there, I need some pointers in the right direction please.
I need to print a page out to fill in a pre-printed sheet. The data to go onto the sheet is purely numbers, but the pre-printed sheet is not in a table format (the boxes where the data goes are in seemingly random positions.)
I am currently completing the task by laying out a panel in the way I want it and using the printComponent method, but this obviously isnt the best way to do it as all I need to print out is text.
How is the best way to go about this? Is it possible to define the position of each line of text?
Cheers. :)

Well, getting the text from your JTextField should be rather easy: myJTextField.getText().
To print it, you'll have to create an Graphics object and draw the text using the drawString method on a Graphics objects: myGraphics.drawString(myText, x, y). You will need to set the right font on the graphics before that (using the setFont() method).
You can then use this Graphics object to print.
See the java tutorial on printing for more info about printing: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/printing/overview.html

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