Printing ABAP Report over LAN and WAN

For the LAN setup for local printer you can defined it as device LOCL Device type: SAPWIN Host printer: __DEFAULT Host spool access method: F (Printing on front end computer) This printer will works fine on your LAN.
For the WAN, assuming that you have 2 office connected over the internet and they work fine with the printer LOCL. Now, you need to have a Print Server where you have installed many of the printer, some of them over WAN and they will work fine if you do this :- The server must have SAPLPD installed. Output device: LPFP Device type: SAPWIN Destination host: sapdev Host printer: HP_HP1 (printer name on the Printer Server) Host spool access method: S (Print on LPDHOST via SAP protocol)



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