EDU264FY Managing Printers

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Managing Printers


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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able todo the following:

Define printer types

Register a printer as a specific printer type Assign a print style and printer driver to a printer type

Understand Pasta printing concepts

Create a custom print style and printer driver

Create a custom SRW driver


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Formatting Information

Text formatting

(bold, underline)

Document formatting(height, width)

Printer formatting

(portrait, landscape)


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Oracle Print Definition Components

Printer type describes printer.

Printer style formats document.

Printer driver formats output.

SRW driver formats text.


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Relationships of the Printer Components

Printstyles

Printerdrivers

PrintersPrintertypes

Page size

orientation

Commands

Reset MakemodelLN03

Op sys nameHP4FL1


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Defining Printers

Register printeras new type

Define new type(if needed)

Define new style(if needed)

Define newdriver

Register printeras predefined type

Using custom

components

Using predefined

components


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Finding Existing Printer Types

Before you can register a new printer, you need todecide its type.

Use the Printer Types form to view existingcombinations of print style and printer drivers to

decide whether an existing printer type supportsyour new printer.

Choose (M) View > FindAll to see all the existingdefinitions.



Registering a New Printer

To add a new printer for an existing printer type,simply register the printer in the Printers window.

If you need to define a new printer type, the Printer

Types button opens the appropriate window.



Defining a New Printer Type

If an appropriate predefined printer type is not listedyou can define a new type of printer.

Assign a style and a printer driver to print a report

in a specific style. The Style and Driver buttons open the appropriate

windows where you can define these items.



Printing with Pasta

The Pasta utility

Converts text report files to Postscript

Enables printing of custom Postscript reports from

Oracle Handles multi-lingual text using UTF8

Has a simpler setup procedure - Printer Tupe,Printer Driver, and SRW driver files are provided



Setup for Basic Printing with Pasta

Use the Printers window to register your printer

Enter your printers name

Select -- Pasta Universal Printer as the Printer

Type



The pasta.cfg file

The pasta.cfg file is an ASCII text file that controls manyprinting options.



Modifying an Existing Printer Type to UsePasta

If your printer is already assigned to a printer type thatcontains styles and drivers that you want to maintain,you can add Pasta to the existing printer type.



Adding a New Printer Type to Use Pasta

If your printer is already assigned to a printer type thatcontains styles and drivers that you want to maintain,you can add Pasta to the existing printer type.



Generating Other Formats using thePreprocessing Option

Use the preprocessing option to generate output filesusing formats other than those that Pasta nativelysupports..



PrintForms

PrintForms allows you to create your own backgroundtemplate for a report and use it at the time of printingeither as a background image or as a standard form.



Using PrintForms

There are two phases to using PrintForms:

Create the PrintForm

Deploy the Print form to Oracle Applications



Other Customization Materials for OracleApplications Printing

Printer Manual

Installing Oracle Applications

Oracle Applications SystemAdministrators Guide



Customizing Printer Components

Print style

Printer driver

SRW driver



Customizing Print Styles

Rows (height)

Columns (width)



Customizing Printer Drivers

Printer driver



Invoking a Printer Driver

Concurrent

manager

Printsubroutine*

Operatingsystem

Customprogram*

Operatingsystem

*Name specified on Printer Driver window

Print command and arguments

Arguments

CommandArguments



Passing Print Arguments

Destination of target printer

Number of copies to print

Header page title

Name of file to print



Using the Program Driver Method

Concurrentmanager Customprogram*

*Name specified on Printer Driver window

Arguments



Initiating Printingfrom a System Shell Script

Use the commandmethod or the printerdriver method.

Place the script in theappropriate directory.

SystemShell Script


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Printing from Standard InputDirectly to the Printer

Invoke the printer driverby using the commandmethod.

Select the StandardInput check box.

Command Method


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Driver Method Parametersfor Spooling

Check box cleared Check box selected

Concurrentmanager

Printprogram

Temporary File Temporary File


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Initialization and Reset Field Contents

Specified in the Printer Drivers window

Control print orientation, character set, and linedensity

Nonprintable characters can be specified in octal


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Creating a CustomSQL*ReportWriter Driver

1. Copy an existing .prt file and save.

2. Modify the new file with new control information.

3. Place the new file in $FND_TOP/$APPLREP.

4. Assign the new driver to a print style or printerdriver.


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Sample SRW Driver File

srw driver-A.prt

printerdec LN03 A4 Landscape

height 62

width 132

between pages control(L)

return

linefeed control(J)

codebold on esc[1mcodebold off esc[0m

codeunderline on esc[4m

codeunderline off esc[0m


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Order of Reading Printer Settings

Printer user profileoption value

Concurrent programsdefinition

Report set

definition

User submits reportto run


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Testing Your Customization

Run report

Checkoutput

Newprinterdriver


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Summary

You should now be able to do the following:

Register new printers

Define new printer types

Create a custom print style Create a custom printer driver

Assign a print style and printer driver to a printertype

Create a custom SRW driver for formatting text andpage breaks

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EDU264FY Managing Printers