Submitting jobs from Windows SAP systems to InfoPrint Manager Windows with access method C

If your SAP system runs on a Windows system, you can submit jobs to a printer running on an InfoPrint Manager Windows server through Access Method C. To configure your Windows SAP system to print through an InfoPrint Manager Windows server, you must create a Windows gateway printer on that InfoPrint Manager Windows server, and then define devices on your SAP system to use access method C.

A Windows gateway printer is the combination of a printer driver and a port. You can create a Windows printer using the Windows Add Printer wizard. You can see these printers from the Windows Printers window, but you should never open and modify them from there.

To define SAP devices to use access method C, follow this procedure:

  1. Make sure that you have a logical printer defined in InfoPrint Manager that sends jobs to your actual destination device.
  2. From the R/3 main menu, access the Spool Administration window by selecting the Tools main menu and then selecting the Tools → Administration → Spool → Spool Administration path or typing /nSPAD in the ok-Code field.
  3. From the Spool Administration window, select the Output devices option and click Change.
  4. Click Create and fill in this information about the Create Output Device window:
    Field Explanation Example value
    Output device

    Type the name that R/3 users will need to access the printer.

    		 prt2
    Device type

    Select the device type that has been defined in the R/3 system for the printer model. HPLJ4 applies to a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4 printer.

    		 HPLJ4
    Spool server

    Select the name of the R/3 application server, which will be the SAP R/3 spool server (spool work process), that transfers output across a network link.

    		 rt1_RT1_00
    Host printer

    Type the hostname of the InfoPrint Manager Windows server (ANAKE), followed by the Windows shared printer name (EDPTEST).

    		 \\ANAKE\EDPTEST
    Device class

    Enter a space so that this field accepts the default value of printer, which is P.

    		  
    Access method in host spool

    Select the method that the spool work process uses to pass data to the host spool system.

    		 C
  5. From the menu bar, click Back and the system prompts you to save the new output device.
Parent topic: Alternate access methods for submitting SAP jobs to InfoPrint Manager