Print Tickets
You can use the Print Tickets
function to make Print Options available for automatically-generated print jobs or other non-interactive print operations. You can combine selected print options and their option values in a print ticket, which can then be used for other print operations with the relevant printer.
Prerequisites
This function is supported for the printing of SAPscript and SAP Smart Forms documents. To be able to also use the print options for SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, the prerequisites describes in SAP Note 1729666 must be fulfilled.
You can only create print tickets for an output device with a device type that supports Printing with Print Options (referred to in the following as a POSS device type). Only if this is the case is the
Print Tickets
tab page visible for this output device in transaction SPAD.For the differences between the SAPscript and SAP Smart Forms documents and SAP Interactive Forms in the available print options in transaction SPAD to be visible, you need to activate parameter IFBA_SUPP_POSS with report RSPO0021.
Features
Unlike the individual print options that can be manually selected by end users in the print dialog, print tickets are only available for non-interactive print jobs.
A print ticket is usually created as a “Standard Print Ticket”. This ensures that automatically-generated print jobs are only printed on the connected printer with the settings defined in the ticket.
This is particularly useful for monthly print jobs (such as pay slips) that only run on one printer or a small number of selected printers.
Activities
Create print tickets in transaction SPAD as an attribute of an output device. When you create an output device with a POSS device type, an additional tab page, Print Tickets
, is added when you save the output device. On this tab page, you can:
Create print tickets for this output device
Edit existing print tickets, for example by adding new print options or changing particular option values
Copy and edit existing print tickets
Copy and edit print tickets from other output devices
Classify a print ticket as a standard print ticket for this output device
If you create a new print ticket, a new dialog box, Edit Print Options
, appears. This dialog box displays the options that are available for the device type. Double-click an option and select the desired option value at the bottom of the dialog box. Proceed in the same way for any other options you want to select and choose 
. You have created the print ticket for this output device.
Example
If an administrator subsequently changes the settings for a print option in SAPD, conflicts with the settings in an existing print ticket can arise. For example, an administrator could completely deactivate the Input Tray
option, which had three option values:
Input tray 1
Input tray 2
Manual paper feed
although there is already a print ticket that contains this option. In the same way, the administrator could deactivate a single option value, such as Manual Paper Feed. In the same way, the administrator could deactivate a single option value, such as Manual Paper Feed
.
In both cases, the subsequent change of the print options overrides the print ticket settings.
Example
Scenario |
SPAD Administrator Settings |
Print Ticket Settings |
|
|---|---|---|---|
Preselection by SPAD administrator |
Preselection of option value 3 |
Option is set to value 2. |
Option value = 3 |
Deactivation of an option by the SPAD administrator |
|
|
No selection for |
Deactivation of an option value by the SPAD administrator |
Option value 2 for |
|
No selection for |
