When you add a Windows printer, you can specify either a printer-specific device type (example: HPLJIIID, KYOF1212) or the generic Windows device type, SWIN.

You can specify SWIN as the device type for all printers for which a driver is installed in the Windows system).

With SWIN, you can also use Windows printer support to access an output device even if the device type is not supported by the SAP System (that is, no print controls, formats or device-type formats have been specified for the device type).

Your SAP System does not contain the definition for your Kalahari 1202 laser printer. However, you have installed the printer under Windows and you have no problems printing to it. This means you will not have to create a full printer definition in the SAP spool system for the Kalahari 1202. Instead, you only have to define the printer as a SWIN device in the Output device definition. After creating the definition, you can print from the SAP System to the Kalahari 1202 without any other preparations.

SWIN also offers some functions (such as color printer support) that are not available for all printer-specific device types.

You may want to define two definitions for a printer, one with SWIN as the device type, the other with the printer-specific device type. In that way, you can take advantage of the features of both device types. You can then select the device type according to the printing features you require.