Thursday, 13 October 2011

View a list of all printer output requests in SAP





Local or frontend printing is sometimes confusing in concept but actually very easy to understand. As a rule, local printer is simply another way of saying that the user is going to print to the default printer designated on his/her workstation. You probably do this all the time with Windows to printer spreadsheets, Word documents, etc without thinking about it. You can do the same thing using SAP.

1.  Log on to any client in the appropriate SAP system.
2.  Go to transaction SPAD.
3.  On the Spool Administration: Initial Screen screen, click the Output Devices
    button. 
4.  On the Spool Administration: List of Output Devices screen, click the
    Change button and then the Create button.
5.  On the Spool Administration: Create Output Device screen, fill in the
    Output Name and Short name - I normally use a short name of “DESK” for
    “Desktop Printing” but alot of people use a Short name “SWIN” or “LOCL”
    as well. Use the following DeviceAttributes fields:

            Device type = SWIN
            Device Class = standard
printer

    And the following Access Method fields:

            Host spool access method = F: Printing on frontend computer                   Host
printer = __DEFAULT. That is _ _ D E F A U L T

    Save the printer.
6.  You may now leave the SPAD transaction.

Using this printer will cause print to go to SAPLPD which will use the default printer of the current workstation.


Viewing a List of Pending Printer Output Requests for All Printers

1.               Log on to any client in the appropriate SAP system.
2.               Go to transaction SP01.
3.               On the Output Controller: Spool request selection Screen screen, click on the Output requests tab.
4.               On the Output Controller: Output request selection Screen screen, fill in any information needed to filter the selection results.  Then click on the clock picture-icon.
5.               A list of all pending output requests will be displayed.
6.               You may now leave the SP01 transaction.

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