RTF/txt file printing.

Heya!
It's been doing my head in trying to figure out how to print JasperReport labels on my Dymo LabelWriter. What i used to do is to export the report to PDF and print it. Issue i had with that is that it ignores font type/family completely. What i noticed is that RTF and txt-files keep the font.
That threw me out on a journey to figure out how to print those. I've been through countless posts on the web, examples, forum posts, etc. All of them show some weird, useless to me scenarios that i couldn't even modify for my own use.
What I'm really looking for is this:
- A way to print .docx, .doc, .rtf or .txt file (physical file on a harddrive) to printer through Java code.
Is it possible? Perhaps some free libs i didnt notice yet?
Thanks in advance!

Now this is "internets" and there is no way to tell the tone, but it just seemed that he went on "for hours" about how dumb i am and how i ignored the content of his post (which i didnt, it just wasnt 100% relevant), while one sentance was enough. Anyway....
I did get it to print the .txt with BufferedReader (printing RTF was a failure, since it printed all the metadata with it, no surprise there).
File txtFile = new File("label.txt");
JRTextExporter txtExporter = new JRTextExporter();
txtExporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.JASPER_PRINT, jasperPrint);
txtExporter.setParameter(JRExporterParameter.OUTPUT_FILE, txtFile);
txtExporter.setParameter(JRTextExporterParameter.CHARACTER_WIDTH, new Float(6.55));//6.55 //6
txtExporter.setParameter(JRTextExporterParameter.CHARACTER_HEIGHT, new Float(11.9)); //11//10
txtExporter.exportReport();
There is also a JRPdfExporter and JRrtfExporter. PDF worked like a charm, except that it completely ignored the font i set in iReport (when i created the report structure).
I use BufferedReader with JTextArea to print the contents of my .txt file for now (txtArea.print() ), and it works fine, just needs adjustments on the numbers in the code above. However, i need to nudge the frame a bit in the right direction. At the moment there is like a good 5 cm top and left whitespace to the label itself.

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