Printing from Multiple Paper Trays

Tray selection for SAPscript texts

Specify information about which paper tray to use for SAPscript/Smart Forms documents in the form. For more information, see the section Print Mode in Pages in SAPscript Forms.

The following Print Controls are used to control tray selection:

Device Type Definitions

If the SAP device type definition (  transaction SPAD  Full Administration pushbutton  Device Types tab page  Device Types pushbutton  click a device type in the list  choose Print Controls ) for your printer does not include the print controls above, follow this procedure:

1. Copy the device type.

2. Add the required print controls and enter 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 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. However, it does use the information to determine potential incompatabilities between the output format and the available paper format. In this case, the spool system chooses the format that fits best for printing at the device.

   Note

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

Tray Selection for ABAP Lists

If your output device uses one of the following device types, specify the default tray to use for printing lists under Paper Tray in the Output Attribute tab page of the device definition.

• Device types for PCL-5 printers:

  • HP4550

  • HP8550

  • HP9000

  • HPLJ1100

  • HPLJ8000

  • HPLJ4000

  • BRHL

• Device type for Prescribe II printers: KYOFS170

• Device type for PostScript Level 2 printers: POST2

Note that you specify the page formats available at the printer on the Tray Info tab page. If the Tray Info tab page does not contain any information, the system prints to an page format created by averaging values for the page formats DINA4 und LETTER.

If you want to use multiple paper trays of your printer, you must create a separate output device for each paper try, such as P99_TRAY1, P99_TRAY2, and so on.