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
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:
|
TRY01 TRY99 |
Paper tray 1 to 99 |
|
TRYEN |
Paper tray for envelopes |
|
TRYME |
Manual envelope feed |
|
TRYMN |
Manual paper feed |
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 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).
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.
If your printer does not use any of the specified device types, you must add the control for a particular paper tray to a format. For more information, see Creating Formats.
See also:
Output Devices in the SAP Spool System
