Define Report Printers

Explanation

Use this activity to select the printer used for printing a selected report. This is useful when you wish to specify the printer used when for printing specified reports, e.g., checks, invoices, or special forms. This optional task is to be performed by a system administrator or equivalent person.

Different printers may be used for different printing needs. The printer that is used depends on the connections between both the report and printer (combined with an optional language), and between the user and printer (combined with an optional language). 

For example, you may want to use one printer for printing administrative reports, such as order confirmations or invoice debits and credits. Another printer may be designated for printing shipment reports, such as delivery notes or customer order pick lists. Yet another printer might be used for printing inventory reports, such as manufacturing order or material requisition pick lists, and arrival documents. 

The logical printer record allows you to connect logical printers to specific reports. This may be useful, for example, when a report must be printed on special stationery or when a report must be printed at a particular location. 

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

• The IFS Print Agent must be defined.
• The selected printers must be defined as logical printers in the Printer Definitions/Logical Printer window.
• Reports that are entered must be standard reports for installed components.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• A report can be sent to a selected printer.

Window

Printer Definitions

Related Window Descriptions

Printer Definitions

Procedure

To perform this activity, follow these steps:

1. Open the Printer Definitions window and click the Report Printer tab.
2. Create a new record.
3. In the Report ID field, query for the report or select one from the List of Values.
4. Select a language from the List of Values if you want to define a printer for a special character set. This field is optional.
5. In the Available Printer list, select the printer to use.
6. To define the default printer, select the Default check box in the printer to use. Only one printer can be defined as the default printer.
7. Save the changes.