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3. Installation and Configuration
This chapter contains information about installing and configuring printing under SAP, i.e. the Device types and their features, by the
Administrator, i.e. work that is necessary before the User can print.
3.1 Basic procedure
The following is the standard procedure for manually installing a new printer device on a SAP system.
(Note: If an external Output Management System is present, the procedure may be different.)
(Note: Under POSS the procedure is different. Refer to the note below.)
1. Test the printer outside SAP, to verify its correct printing operation.
2. Test the printer in SAP, using a compatible standard device type (e.g. HPLJ5SI, POST2).
3. Import the proprietary device type (ZAxxcvvv) to use it as a template.
4. For each different device model to be used, and each combination of settings needed:
4.1. Make a copy of ZAxxcvvv.
Name it suitably (indicating which settings it will effect).
4.2. For each Format to be used:
Make the necessary modifications in the "Printer initialization" action, at the appropriate places.
5. For each combination of physical printer and device type created above:
Create an Output device connecting to the physical printer and using the device type.
Use a mnemonic name.
The necessary procedures are standard SAP procedures. Please refer to your SAP documentation, or see Appendix 1: "Installation and
Configuration : Procedures".
Note: (Installing our devices as network printers)
Our devices can be installed as network printers, as follows:
1. In the "Host spool access method" field, specify "U".
2. In the "Host printer" field, specify the "Printer queue name" given in Volume 3.
3. In the "Destination host" field, specify its IP address.
Note: (Using "POSS") -- [only for SAPscript & SmartForms]
If the Device type supports POSS ("Print Options for SAPscript and SmartForms"), it is not necessary to make a copy of the Device type for
every combination of settings needed. (This is still necessary for ABAP list printing, though.) Instead, the mechanism is as follows:
For each Output Device referring to the Device type, the administrator can define which of the POSS features shall appear configurable to the
user, or he may specify fixed settings.
Upon printing a print job, the user can click the "Additional Options" button in the Print Parameters dialog, and then select from the available
settings.
For the extent of POSS support implemented, refer to the separate section "POSS" above.
For the related screens and procedures refer to Appendix 1P: "Configuration using POSS" below.
3.2 Examples
(Note: Under POSS the procedure is different. Refer to the note above.)
3.2.1 (Setting up the printing environment)
Assume your company has four departments DEP1, DEP2, DEP3, and DEP4, each producing the following three types of documents: Letters,
Invoices, Article lists. Further assume your TCP/IP network has four identical printers LP1, LP2, LP3, LP4, each equipped with a Mailbox and a
Finisher unit. Department DEP uses only printer LP. Assume further that the company have the following printing conventions:
• Letters : are to be output into a separate mailbox for each issuing person
• Invoices : are to be stapled
• Article lists : are to be printed duplex; they have 65 rows and 132 columns
• Only A4 paper can be used.
Then you would define something like the following (for = 1 ... 9, = 1 ... 4):
-- (11 device types):
• Z00MBX in the "Printer initialization" action of the DINA4 format, specify the command sequence for Mailbox Tray
• Z00STP in the "Printer initialization" action of the DINA4 format, specify the command sequence for activating stapling
• Z00DPX in the "Printer initialization" action of the X_65_132 format, specify the command sequence for duplex printing
-- (44 output devices):