Printing with different format on the same printer

[Former Member]

Hi everyone,

Need assistance on this issue. There is a printing job initiated by a batch job. When the data is being printed by the batch job, it has the correct format. However, when the user try to print the same data on the same printer manually, its coming out with a different format. Does it have something to do with the printer settings? Please advise. Thanks.

[Satyabrata_Basu]

Hi Sheryl,

Are you sure they are same printer in SAP ? I mean it could be the same physical printer has been defined two different way. E.g. my local default printer, I can print it as LOCL printer with SAPWIN devide type and also same printer can be defined e.g. TEST01 in SAP with dfifferent device type (say HPLJ4)

Just a thought...

Cheers !!

Satya.

[Former Member]

Dear Sheryl,

What is the format used in the program. It would be specified with following syntax.

PRINT-CONTROL <formats> [LINE <lin>] [POSITION <col>].

Tools -> Administration -> Spool -> Spool administration. This takes you to the screen Spool Administration (transaction SPAD).

Choose the individual components to receive the following information:

Output devices - a list of the installed printers, including the device types

Device types - a description of the device types

Standard print control - a list of the print-control codes

Print control - an assignment of printer-specific control characters to the print-control codes for each device type

Page formats - a list of page formats

Paper types - a list of valid formats

Device initialization - an assignment of formats for each device type

Formats:

CPI <cpi>

CI<cpi>

Characters per inch

LPI <lpi>

LI<lpi>

Lines per inch

COLOR BLACK

CO001

Color black

COLOR RED

CO002

Color red

COLOR BLUE

CO003

Color blue

COLOR GREEN

CO004

Color green

COLOR YELLOW

CO005

Color yellow

COLOR PINK

CO006

Color pink

LEFT MARGIN <lfm>

LM<lfm>

Space from the left margin

FONT <fnt>

FO<fnt>

Font

FUNCTION <code>

<code>

For directly specifying a code

Regards,

Naveen.

[former_member190272]

Hi

Check the setting T Code SPAD.

Thanks

Pankaj Kumar