Tuesday 21 June 2011

How to configure printer in SAP ?

This article answers following queries :

  • How to configure a printer in SAP ?

  • How to take a print in SAP ?

  • How to check the spool requests generated in SAP ?

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How to configure a printer in SAP ?


       Goto SPAD transaction




Click on display button of Output Devices, to display list of output devices as below :




Click on change button to view below screen and click on create button to get below screen





As shown above, Please specify :

  • Output device name

  • Shortname

  • Device type

  • Spool server

  • Device class details


In the next tab,  please specify host spool access method, host printer details




In the other tabs, please leave the default settings and press save which creates an output device






How to take a print in SAP ?


To take the printout, goto any transaction and after listing the contents, click on printer icon to view the below screen.




In the above screenshot, select the output device (i.e new device that is created now) as below








After selecting the output device, click on ticket mark to confirm to print.




After this, a spool request will get generated as above.



How to check the spool requests generated in SAP ?


This spool request can be viewed in SP01 transaction as below :




Click on execute to view the bleow list of spool requests







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