Oracle Apps - Printer Setup

Oracle Apps - Printer Setup

Fnd the below steps which will help to setup printer in Oracle Applications

A)Prerequisites:

- Printers should be first defined at Unix OS level by customers

Please check the status of printer at unix level by using the following command

lpstat -a

B)Configure Printer in Oracle Applications

The following is the order of Printer setup in Oracle Applications:

Define Driver

Define Style

Define Printer Type

Register the Printer

1) Define the printer driver, Install > Printer > Driver

Login to application using System Administrator or Application Administrator resp

Define the printer driver, Install > Printer > Driver

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

Enter the Driver Name : LANDWIDEHPLJ4SI

Enter the User Driver Name: LANDWIDE for Printer HPLJ4SI

Description: Give some desc appropiate

SRW Driver: HPW

SRW drivers are read by Oracle reports when a report is run and insert control characters which tell the destination printer on where to insert the page breaks and font to be used etc.. SRW driver is used when output file is sent to the printer

SRW driver files on unix are located in $FND_TOP/reports. In the above example, file name would be HPW.prt

Platform: Not required

Arguments: Printer Driver pass the following arguments to program

Name of the destination printer

Number of Copies to print

Banner of the title page

Filename

Initialization and Reset strings: Instructs printer on printing characteristics are needed for the document to be printed. Printer vendor provides these details

2) Define the printer style , Install > Printer > Style

Login to application using System Administrator or Application Administrator resp

Define the printer style , Install > Printer > Style

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

Style Name : HPW

Seq: Enter unique sequence number

User Style: LANDWIDE - HPLJ4

SRW Driver: HPW , this should match with driver define page

Layout:Columns,Rows and Orinetation: Columns and Rows inserted here override the height and width defined in SRW driver file

3)Define the printer type, Install > Printer > Type

Login to application using System Administrator or Application Administrator resp

Define the printer type, Install > Printer > Type

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

Type: HPLJ4SI

Style: Style name

Driver Name: Driver name

4)Register a new printer , Navigation Path is Install > Printer > Register

Login to application using System Administrator or Application Administrator resp

Define the printer type, Install > Printer > Type

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

Printer : Printer Name

Type: Type defined earlier

Description : Useful description

Some important tables related with printing are:

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FND_PRINTER

FND_PRINTER_INFORMATION

FND_PRINTER_STYLES

FND_PRINTER_DRIVERS

NOTE: Please note any changes to Printer Type, Style and Driver needs bouncing of concurrent manager for the changes to take effect.