US Patent 7821666 Alternative to pre-printed special forms

A system and method allowing pre-printed forms to print onto plain paper and also for converting a pre-printed form type system into a plain paper system. The pre-printed form is recreated as an electronic template file in PCL (printer control language) including the contents of the pre-printed form (e.g., the pre-printed text, lines, boxes, logos, etc.), combined with a data file from an application and printed to a plain paper printer. Alternatively, the system may migrate the combined file to a database or web server to allow for easy access and searching by multiple-users at remote locations.