Thanks again for the pointer, I did attempt to use postscript previously, but my Yahoo search did not yield as productive of a guide as you pointed me to. Here is my simple, quick code to populate every cell of a page with a unique character (which is what I needed). NOTE: it produces a large file. I thought I would post if anyone was interested. 
$COLOR{"0"} = "0 0 0";
$COLOR{"1"} = "0 0 1";
$COLOR{"2"} = "0 1 0";
$COLOR{"3"} = "0 1 1";
$COLOR{"4"} = "1 0 0";
$COLOR{"5"} = "1 0 1";
$COLOR{"6"} = "1 1 0";
$COLOR{"7"} = "1 1 1";
$SY{"0"}    = "0";
$SY{"1"}    = "1";
$SY{"2"}    = "2";
$SY{"3"}    = "3";
$SY{"4"}    = "4";
$SY{"5"}    = "5";
$SY{"6"}    = "6";
$SY{"7"}    = "7";
$SY{"8"}    = "8";
$SY{"9"}    = "9";

open OUT, ">test.ps";
print OUT "%!\n";
print OUT "72 72 scale\n";
print OUT ".25 .25 translate\n";
print OUT "/Courier findfont .095 scalefont setfont\n";


$sy1=1;
$color=0;
for ($y=1; $y<=148; $y++) {
$sy = $sy1; $sy1++; if ($sy1 > 9) {$sy1 = 0;}
for ($x=1; $x<=130; $x++) {

  $_x = $x*.060;
  $_y = $y*.070;

  print OUT "$COLOR{$color} setrgbcolor\n";
  print OUT "$_x $_y  moveto ($SY{$sy}) show\n";
  $sy++; if ($sy > 9) {$sy=0;}
  $color++; if ($color > 7) {$color = 0;}
}
}

print OUT "showpage\n";
close OUT;
`lp test.ps`;

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