Setting Up Local Printers

Use

Local printing is the most reliable and often the fastest method to transfer data from the SAP system to the host spool system, as the SAP spool server (application server with a spool work process) is in the same host system as the host spool system (operating system spooler). It is irrelevant whether the printer is directly connected to the PC or whether it is a shared network printer.

Procedure

The figure below shows the architecture for local printing:

To set up the print architecture for local printing, follow the procedure below:

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1. Set up an SAP spool server on a host system from which you can conveniently drive your printers.

The spool server is an application server that provides spool processing. It therefore requires at least one spool work process. The number of spool work processes is defined by the parameter rdisp/wp_no_spo, and this must always be set to at least 1.

2. Define all output devices that the SAP spool server is to use in the host spool system (operating system spooler).

You can use both locally connected and shared network devices.

3. Define the output devices in the SAP spool system.

To do this, create device definitions for the output devices in transaction SPAD (choose the Output Devices pushbutton ® Output Device menu ® Create/Create Using Template).

- Specify the host system on which the spool server (application server with a spool work process) is running, as the spool server of the output device.

- In the Access method field, choose method L for a UNIX host.

- For a Microsoft Windows host, choose access method C.