SAP Basis

Unit 10: Including Printers in SAP Systems ADM100
Figure 116: What Is a Device Type?
The following list explains the terms from the above figure.
Page format
ApageformatdescribestheformatofaprintablepageintheSAP
system. A large number of standard page formats are predefined in
the system. If a device is to be support additional format that are not
delivered, you can define new formats. Consider when doing so that
your output device must, of course, be able to use the new format.
Format type
A format type describes how output should appear on paper. It
primarily contains the formatting of the page format.
Format
A format is a device-specific implementation of a format type. That is,
the SAP system can use the description in a format to control a device
correctly to, for example, perform an output on a page with the Letter
format. A format type is therefore not device-specific, the format, on
the other hand, is a device-specific implementation of a format type.
Character set
A character set contains the characters that can be output by a
particular output device. That is, tobeabletouseaparticular
character set for a selected printer model in the SAP environment, the
device type assigned to this printer model must contain this character
set.
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