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Printer delay - Waiting for output formatter

Former Member — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:28:55 GMT

Hello,

since 2 days, our print outs out of SAP take up to 10 minutes before the actually get printed out.

In SP01 it says "waiting for output formatter".

- I checked table TSP01and it only has 800 entries.

- When I do a reprint for the delayed print out, it is printing out right away with no delay.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Anne

Re: Printer delay - Waiting for output formatter

Former Member — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:37:09 GMT

Have you looked for notes??

See 16307, 529966 and 854044 .

Rob

Re: Printer delay - Waiting for output formatter

Former Member — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:51:22 GMT

Hi,

thanks for the notes. I just checked them, but I assume if: it was working fine before, so there should be no need to change the output program as stated in the notes?

Thanks

Anne

Re: Printer delay - Waiting for output formatter

Former Member — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:16:34 GMT

We found the issues, so for the record:

A couple of print jobs have been sent to one printer and got stuck. The person using this printer is on vacation so nobody noticed. However after the printer has been turned off and back on, the print outs came out and the print speed for all other prints went back to normal.

Seems like this one printer was holding up all other prints.

Re: Printer delay - Waiting for output formatter

Former Member — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:03:40 GMT

Adittional info:

Verify the server that has the spool with status waiting for output formatter, then must validate the server has some spool process on hold (SM50), if so, kill him and all spool orders will be ok

Re: Printer delay - Waiting for output formatter

nabheetscn — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:05:40 GMT

FYI 4 Year old thread:)