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LOCL or dedicated Printer for smart form Output?

Former Member
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Hi Expert,

I have Define two Printer in SPAD,

1) LOCL : is using SWIN as device TYPE

2) ZRIC: RICOH Device type.

Now, when i am testing smartform output on Printer then I can able to print on same Printer because LOCL & ZRIC is same Printer. 

What are pros & cons of using both Printer? I think, I may not able use LOCL for background job Printing .

Thanks a lot.

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Accepted Solutions (1)

alexander_bolloni
Contributor
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Hi Vipin,

the PROs are that you are able to test your form definition using two different device types (btw SWINCF would be better than SWIN, because it supports Unicode): SWIN and an unnamed Ricoh device type which probably "speaks" PCL5 or PostScript. Your output will look slightly different because different fonts are available for both device types.

You may possibly construct your form in such a way that it works on both types of device types.

Regards,

  Alex

Former Member
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Thanks a lot Alexander for your reply. Yesterday, I understood that if i am using LOCL printer and printing a barcode in output, then BARCODE.DLL should be available on my machine.

yiming_zhang
Explorer
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Hello,

There is SAP note about barcode printing.

1557674 - Overview of barcode printing from SAP system

If you have problem about barcode printing, you can read this note.

Regards,
Yiming

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Answers (2)

Florian
Active Contributor
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There are a lot of disavanteges to use LOCL as a default device in a system.

Some are named already, but if you ever need a Tray-selection you will have no choice at all.

Additional to that, have a look into the official SAP printing guide, there you find all your answers you need.

SAP Printing Guide (BC-CCM-PRN) - SAP Library

~Florian

yiming_zhang
Explorer
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Hello,

Frontend printing (access method G or F) cannot be used for back ground job printing.

Best regards,
Yiming