Use this window to define your printer driver and printer commands.
Attention: You should issue a Restart concurrent manager command for all currently active managers whenever you edit an existing Printer Type, Print Style, or Printer Driver.
Oracle E-Business Suite ships printer drivers for the following print styles:
Portrait
Landscape
Landwide
A4
Dynamic Portrait
Oracle E-Business Suite also ships printer drivers for specific printer types, including the following:
Apple
DEC LN03
HP Laserjet II, HP Laserjet III, HP Laserjet 4
HP line printer, HP 256X line printer
EPOCH
EPSON FX1050 and DMTX1
QMS PS 825/925
Define additional printer drivers if you have different types of printers, or define additional print styles.
The printer driver name must be unique for a given platform.
This user name is referenced by Oracle E-Business Suite and must be unique for a given platform.
Enter the name of the Oracle Reports (SRW) printer driver, if any, that will be invoked by your printer driver. Only Oracle Reports programs require this information.
Enter the entire path to the file, or just the file name. If you enter only the file name, Oracle E-Business Suite assumes the file is located in the $FND_TOP/$APPLREP directory.
Select the platform for which the printer driver is defined. Do not assign platform codes to printer drivers unless you have multiple drivers of the same name. If it cannot find a specific platform code associated with a driver, the concurrent manager will default to the driver with a null platform code.
| Command | The printer driver executes within an operating system shell. An example is the lpr command in UNIX. |
| Program | The printer driver executes directly as a program, not through an operating system shell.
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| Subroutine | The printer driver executes a predefined Oracle E-Business Suite routine. Subroutines are specific to operating platforms and are invoked directly by a system call from the concurrent manager |
Select whether the printer driver creates its own copy of a file for printing. If this check box is checked when the Driver Method is set to Program, the print program creates its own spool file.
An example of spool files is the UNIX lpr command, which creates its own copy of a file if you do not specify the -s option.
Select whether the printer driver accepts standard input. Uncheck this check box when the Driver Method is set to Program. Unless the program accepts standard input, this check box should always be unchecked.
An example is the UNIX command lpr, which accepts standard input when a filename is not specified.
If the driver method is Program, enter the full path to the program that the driver invokes. The path is not necessary if the program's location can be identified by the operating system's PATH environment variable. See Location for Custom Print Programs.
If the driver method is Subroutine, enter the subroutine name that the driver invokes.
When the Driver Method is set to Program, enter any generic arguments that must be supplied to the print program.
When the Driver Method is set to Command, enter the full command and its arguments.
Enter the initialization string that must be sent to the printer before the printer driver can begin printing.
Enter the reset string that returns the printer to its ready state when printing is complete.
The double brackets ([ ]) identify a descriptive flexfield that you can use to add data fields to this form without programming.
This descriptive flexfield allows you to define special commands specific to your printer driver and/or the platform it runs on.