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SAP Printing Guide (BC-CCM-PRN)

Implementation considerations
The SAP Printing Guide describes the functions of the SAP Spool System. This system was designed to be
used on various platforms. SAP provides its own spool service and a spool database so that users do not have
to deal with operating system-specific issues.
The platform-independent SAP spool system is responsible for the output of forms and documents. The data to
be printed is first temporarily stored (spooled), then formatted, and finally transferred to a host spool system
to be output. You can control all of your output from the SAP System and do not need to arrange further
processing in the host spool system.
The following are among the main tasks of the SAP spool system:

Processing and managing print requests

Administering output devices

Technical mapping of the output devices in the SAP System

Features
Among other things, the SAP Printing Guide describes the following:

Print Process in General

An introduction for users and administrators, in which the print process from document to printout is
explained in general.
The focus of the introductory sections is the Output Controller (transaction SP01), which can be used by
both administrators and users to manage print requests.

Spool Access Authorizations

This sections and its subsections describe the access authorizations required specifically for the spool
system.

Possible Print Architecture and Print Methods

The various print architectures are described in this section and its subsections, that is, the different
constellations of hardware and software components with the corresponding access methods: Each
architecture also requires a specific print method, such as:

Local printing: The spool server (application server with a spool work process) and host spool
system (operating system spooler) are on the same host.

Remote printing: The spool server and the host spool system are on different hosts.

Frontend printing: Print data are to be printed on the default printer of the users PC.

Printing using SAP GUI for HTML

Output Devices in the SAP Spool System

Output devices must be defined in the SAP System so that they can be addressed from the SAP
System.
You do this using device definitions with which the devices are managed in the SAP System.
This link takes you to a description of these device definitions and their printer settings.

Spool Server
This section explains what a spool server is, how you define it, and what using logical servers and
alternative servers involves.

Device Types for SAP Output Devices

Device types are explained in this section. A device type in the SAP system is the category of printer to

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be addressed. The information in the device type, such as font selection, page size, and character set
selection is used to convert a document from the internal SAP format to a device-specific, printable data
stream.

Connecting to an External Output Management System (OMS)

This section explains how you can connect the SAP spool system to an external Output Management
System.

Maintaining the Spool Database

This link takes you to a section explaining how you maintain your spool database to ensure optimal
performance.

TemSe Database Storage

This section and its subsections explain what TemSe is and how you can manage TemSe objects.

Analyzing Printing Problems

This link takes you to examples that will provide you with support in identifying and correcting errors.

For more information, see the SAP Service Marketplace under http://sap.service.com/output
and the SAP Notes database (http://sap.service.com/notes).
Beginners can find

basic information about printing in the introduction to the SAP Systems.

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