Invoice print issue in background job

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We use background job to create invoice in our system. Invoice has 2 output type, one is for invoice and the other is for conditions&terms. Once invoice is created in background job, the two output will be issued. We print 4 pieces of invoice(1 orignal and 3 copy), and 3 conditions&terms for each invoice.

Now we found that the sequence of our print out is mixed. Sometime it is very hard to distinguish them. BTW, we found that if the paper was too less in the printer and we are refilling the printer in the morning also the sequence of the paperwork is not as it should be. Could it be that the printer is the one which is not printing the jobs in the transfered sequence?

Thank you in advance.

Richard

[Jelena]

It could be combination of both spool request processing in SAP and printer mixing up output (this is not unusual even when two users send long Word documents to the same network printer - the pages might get interspersed).

You might be better off if you add T&C to the invoice form (you probably can have a condition inside not to print it for the first copy), unless it is printed on a different paper (I'm assuming not). With two different outputs you have very little control of how they will be processed. In general, SAP tries to expedite things by using parallel processing and it is a good thing, but sometimes it has negative effects.

Also you might want to search ABAP and Forms forum for other solutions. It's been discussed there many times how to out two forms in the same spool etc.