Mass Lock All Printers with SPAD

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If you have lots of printers (50 or more) and need to lock them for maintenance, you can used this mass locked printers tips to locked or unlocked all the SAP printers at one go.

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

To mass Lock all the printer in SAP:

Go to transaction code SPAD

On top of the screen menu click Utilities -> For output devices -> Export devices

On the screen Import and Export of Device Descriptions:

Export/Import file name: c:\temp\printer.txt

Frontend computer: Tick

Export: Tick

Export Export: Tick

Output device: Choose the Selection options Pattern and type a * 
                       (* for all or a* for all printers starting with a)

Click the Execute button

Open the text file do a replace all of PADISABLED = “” to PADISABLED = “X”

Then import the same file.

or

Another way is to go through each output device in SPAD and click on ‘Lock Printer in SAP System‘ which is in the DeviceAttributes tab

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Print to an USB printer from SAP

Is printing to a USB-printer using LOCL from SAP possible? 

Yes, as long as this printer is defined on local workstation, it will work.

SAPLPD doesn’t care on how the printer is connected, as long as Windows can print to it, SAPLPD will do its work.

Define one new device, also consider giving :

Device type as SAPWIN

Host Printer __default (yes, two underscores default)

Access Method : F

Make sure your desktop/PC Windows default printer is set to this USB printer.

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Parallel printing to all the SAP device printers

If you have a situation where reports need to be send to multiple printers, you can configure a pool device type. A pool device type contain a list of SAP printers which the reports will be directed to.

Do this in transaction code SPAD for spool administration.

For example, in SPAD, type ZXXX next to the field ‘Output devices‘,

Click the button Output devices.

In change mode, click the Create button.

Specify the Device type of your printer.

Click the tabstrips ‘HostSpoolAccMethod‘.

In the field “Host spool access method” set to “P: Device Pool”.

Click the tabstrips ‘DevicePool‘

Click the options “Send to all devices in pool”.

Type in the list of the SAP printers device you want the report to go to in this pool under the section ‘Pool Device List‘.

Now, when the users send a print to the new device for e.g. ZXXX, it will print to all the spool device you have specify.

The above step is done using SAP 4.6c

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