Oracle E-Business Suite provides you with predefined printer types, print styles, and printer drivers. Use the Printer Types form to query the combinations of print style and printer driver that support each type of printer you have. Customize the predefined components as necessary. See: Customizing Printing Support in Oracle E-Business Suite.
Attention: Predefined printing components may have to be modified for different printer types and/or operating platforms.
You use four forms to define printer support.
You must define any printer types used at your site that are not shipped with Oracle E-Business Suite. It is on this form that you associate the print style with a printer driver for the particular printer type.
You register a printer so that Oracle E-Business Suite recognizes the printer and can forward to it the output from a report program.
To register a printer you specify the printer's operating system name, which uniquely identifies the printer, and select the printer type. The printer type must already be defined.
For example, if you want users of Oracle E-Business Suite to be able to print to a newly purchased printer, you:
Register the operating system name of the new printer (for example, printer39), and select the printer type (for example, LN03).
If the correct printer type is not defined, you must define the new printer type before you can register the printer.
To generate a report, the print style values for columns and rows are passed by the concurrent manager to Oracle Reports. A print style determines the dimensions of your report, or the number of rows and columns per page.
A printer driver includes the initialization and reset strings that format and restart a printer. You need a defined printer driver for each print style that you plan to use with a specific printer type on a specific platform.
Many printers can be registered as the same printer type.
A printer type can support multiple print styles.
A printer driver must be assigned to a printer type for each print style.
Many printer drivers can support the same print style.
Many printer drivers can support the same printer type.