Printing from Multiple Paper Trays 

Use

If your printer has multiple paper trays, you can control which one is used from the SAP System.

Tray selection for SAPscript texts

Information about which paper tray to use for SAPscript texts is specified in the SAPscript form. For more information, see the section Print Mode in Pages in SAP script Forms.

The following Print Controls are used to control tray selection:

TRY01

Paper tray 1

TRY02

Paper tray 2

TRY03

Paper tray 3

TRYEN

Paper tray for envelopes

TRYME

Manual envelope feed

TRYMN

Manual paper feed

Device definition

If the SAP device definition for your printer does not contain the print controls described above, do the following:

  1. Copy the device type.
  2. Add the required Print Controls and the printer-specific escape sequences. Look in your printer manual for information about what to enter.
  3. For list printing: Create a format type and add this to the device type definition. For the initialization action, enter the command for selection of the desired tray. For information about the procedure, see Defining a New Device Type.
  4. Create an Output Device with the new device type
  5. Choose Tray info in the device definition and enter the available paper formats

Background: The SAP spool system cannot use this information to switch paper trays according to the output. But it does use this information to detect potential incompatibilities between the output format and the available paper types. It then chooses the best available format for printing at this device.

To test tray selection, use the standard text SAPSCRIPT-TRAYTEST . To do this, choose Utilities ® For device types ® Test data(SAPscript).

Device definition (with list printer drivers)

If your output device uses one of the following device types:

go to the Output attribute tab page in the device definition. Under Paper tray, specify the default tray to use for printing lists. For Tray info, enter the page formats available at the printer. If Tray info is not available, the system prints using an intersection of the DINA4 and LETTER page formats.

If you want to use several of your printer’s trays, you must create an output device for each paper tray, for example, P99_TRAY1 , P99_TRAY2, and so on.

 If your printer does not use any of the specified device types, you must add a command to activate a particular paper tray to a format. For more information, see Creating Formats.

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