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I've had experience getting raw print outs to work for forms on my comptuer. What I'll do is scan in the form, open up word and set it up as an image and scale it the entire size of the paper, print out, see if it looks close to the original as far as positioning and readjust. Once it's lined up right click on the image and go to Properties or Format, i i forget which. You'll find one page w/ different layouts for the image, one of which is Image Behind Text.

That's the one you want. Now go to Insert->Text box and draw some text boxes around the areas you want to input text. Enter your info. You can go to the properties of the text box to disable the borders, make them transparent.


Once you are done right click on the background image and go to properties, change the brightness & contract to 100% so it effectively disappears and all you are left with seeing is your positioned text. Now do a test print. If you need readjust the brightness/contrast on the BG image so you can see what you're doing, tweak the positions of the box, blank out the BG image again and retry. Once you have it working well load up a bunch and let your printer fly.

For the four part forms I imagine you could just separate them all so you print 4 times for each copy since you wont have the pressure of a ballpoint pen. You'd probably also want to set your printer ink settings on "low"/"economy"/"draft" so they don't over saturate those thin sheets causing them to bleed.

I hope this helps!