SAP Basis

Unit 10: Including Printers in SAP Systems ADM100
For information about printing to files using command sets, see SAP Notes
6573 and 161516.
Remote Printing
The “remote printing” access method requires communication between
the spool work process and an operating system spooler over a network.
We therefore recommend that this access method is only used in local
networks. A spool work process that is transferring print data does not
accept any other tasks during the communication. The slower the network,
the longer the spool work process is blocked and unavailable for other
tasks.
With remote printing, the spool work process and operating system
spooler are running on different hosts. In exactly the same way as with
local printing, it is irrelevant from the SAP system’s point of view whether
the printer is directly connected to the remote host, or is reached using
another network connection.
Figure 113: Remote Printing
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