Displaying text on top of an image

Hi,

Is it possible to display static HTML text on top of an image? (but not the background image)

the reason im asking this is because i am looking to find a solution on printing my HTML pages with text on top of an image and traditionaly i think the only way to do it is to set the image as a background, but in this case my background image will not come in printed paper.

maybe there is a way of doing this in css? or javascript?

Thanks in advance