>>> I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows >>> computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and >>> straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither gnumeric nor >>> kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the basis of my brief >>> experience with those two programs.
Windows is probably your best solution. Printing problems with those programs are not on topic for the misc@ list. If those programs were printing to the OpenBSD print spooler and there was a problem with the print spooler, THEN this would be on topic.