Delta Printing (SAP Library - Customer Service (CS))

Delta Printing

Prerequisites

Delta printing is only intended for operations that do not yet have the status Printed.

You can only use delta printing if it is available in your system. Therefore, your system administration must have made the appropriate Customizing settings.

Operation Status

An operation obtains the status Printed from the system as soon as a shop paper, for which the indicator Operation status has been set in Customizing, is printed for it.

If the indicator Operation status has not been set in Customizing for any of the shop papers, the system can never give the operations the status Printed. If you then use delta printing, the system reprints the shop papers for all the operations.

Order Status

An order only has the status Partly printed if its operations already had the status Printed when a new operation was added.

Procedure

Proceed in the same way as when printing for the first time. Refer to Printing Shop Papers.

However, in the Select Shop Papers dialog box, select the field Delta for the papers you require.

The following cases can occur:

Shop papers are printed for order operations that do not yet have the status Printed.

Shop papers are not printed for order operations that already have the status Printed, even if they were not printed during the print operation, for which the status was set for these operations.

If required, you can change the delta print during the run-time to produce a complete printout. To do this, deactivate the Delta field.

Result

When you execute a delta print:

Only new operations, in other words, operations that have not yet been printed, appear on the job ticket and the control ticket

Time tickets are only printed if they have not been printed before

Components are only printed if they have not previously been printed on the component slip (for example, the material withdrawal slip)

The printed papers are flagged as delta printouts

If you have changed the specifications in the fields Quantity or Work for printed operations, the system does not remove the Printed status.