Payments
Cheque not being printed
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 03:19:06 PST
From: "senapathy srinivasan" senapathy_s@hotmail.com
Hi,
We are on 10.7 GUI. I was just trying out the Cheque Printing process in
the AP Demo using the WELLSUS USD Account. I went into the Enter /
Adjust Invoices Button, selected the Invoice I wanted to pay using a
Quick Check. I selected the Invoice and Supplier, saved, then went into
the Actions Button and Selected the Print Now Option and specified a
printer. The Format Payments Program ran successfully. However no output
goes to printer and hence no Cheque printout emerges. I had then checked
the status of the concerned Invoice, and it had been paid. What could be
the problem. I am attaching the Request Log File.
Thanks Senapathy
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Oracle Payables: Version : 8.0.159 - Development
Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1991. All rights reserved.
APXPBFEG module: Format Payments (Evergreen)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Current system time is 20-MAR-1999 14:46:45
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------
| Starting concurrent program execution...
+-----------------------------
Arguments
------------
P_PAYMENT_BATCH=Quick Payment: ID=1020178
------------
MSG-00125: Laser check printing escape sequences have been activated.
MSG-00800: Getting Payment Batch details....
MSG-01001: Quickcheck - deleting temporary records....
Reports: Release 2.5.5.8.0 - Production on Sat Mar 20 14:46:56 1999
Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1979, 1996. All rights reserved.
+--------------------------
| Printing output file...
+--------------------------
Request ID : 1475664
Number of copies : 1
Printer : lp51
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Concurrent request completed successfully
Current system time is 20-MAR-1999 14:46:56
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 10:23:05 -0600
From: "Shockey, David" DShockey@jwrinc.com
Does the destination printer print other jobs from Oracle apps
correctly? Do other jobs use the same print style and driver in Oracle
applications? The printer configuration may not be correct. Check the
print queue to see whether the jobs are paused or a printer error has
caused all jobs to pause in the queue.
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:55:53 PST
From: loraine.carrasco@excite.com
Subject: Re: Check Printing
Senapathy
If you look under $AP_TOP, you will find that in the demo version,
executables are not provided for a lot of the payment formats you see on the
front end
Loraine Carrasco
Consultant
Subject: AP : Cheque Printing
Author: "senapathy srinivasan" [SMTP:senapathy_s@hotmail.com] at chicago1
Date: 3/22/99 9:14 PM
Hi,
Seems that the Cheque Printing Program was spewing some control
characters. The request to print the cheque was reaching the print queue
all right, but the presence of these control characters caused the queue
to fail, which meant that the cheques never got to the printer. We are
working on how to solve this problem.
We are using form feeds (pre printed cheques) for our payments. Is the
Evergreen Form Feeds program the right one to use. I understand that
some changes need to be carried out on the cheque printing program to
take care of our organisational requirements.
Thanks Senapathy
"Cheley, Dave"
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:32:19 -0800 Checks being printed twice
From: Dan Olson [SMTP:dolson@dacotah.com]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:29:44 +0100 Format problem
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:49:32 -0500
joseph peeriz peerizm@rocketmail.com on 06/23/99 03:07:39 AM
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:22:38 -0400
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Printing checks throws blank checks
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 11:01:08 -0700
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:19:23 -0700
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:46:42 -0700 Check printing - left margin
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:04:49 EDT
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:44:15 -0500
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:33:26 MYT-8 Signatures not being printed on checks
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:26:01 -0700
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:35:01 -0400
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:54:48 -0700
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:13:08 -0400
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:31:41 -0700
Please respond to oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: AP : Cheque Printing
Are you in the process or have you just completed an upgrade? We are
experiencing the same control characters at the top l corner of the
page when we do the check printing. Actually, it looks like all of
our reports have control characters like X;+- .
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave
From: Elton Chiu/VSE/CAechiu@vse.ca
Subject: RE: AP : Cheque Printing
We had the same problem after the upgrade to 10.7. Uncheck the "Standard
Input" box in your printer driver will fix it.
Elton Chiu
Vancouver Stock Exchange
Sent: 26 March 1999 15:33
Subject: AP check printing - sys admin
About 50% of the time our batch check printing of checks attempted to
print the batch twice. I have checked the output file and it contains
only a single copy of each check, and the report copies was listed as
only 1 copy.
We are using 10.7/16.1 GUI on Digital Unix 4.0b and Server 7.3.3.5.
Has anybody else had this happen? I am assuming that it is either a
network problem (only occurs at our remote site over a T1), or a printer
problem (only happens on one printer - but it's the only one setup for
laser checks right now).
Does anyone know if there is a way to tell lpr not to re-send on
failure? Or is this a case where it is actually related to the size of
the file (but under 1000 pages)?
Thanks,
Dan Olson
SPF Energy Inc.
From: Graham Duggan gjduggan@mail.com
Subject: RE: AP check printing - sys admin
This will be dependant on the Digital implementation of the UNIX
spooler. On Solaris there is an option with the lpadmin command used to
create the printer to specify fault recover to be one of continue,
beginning or wait. Check with your UNIX admin or lpadmin equivalent
command
Graham.
From: "Javaid Ansari" JMANSARI@mail.arco.com
Subject: AP: Check Printing
Hi All,
I am trying to print my checks on pre-printed stationary on
EPSON FX 1170 with continuous stationary option.
First check print goes fine (according to my format) but
after that it prints 1 line above the actual one.
I have tried to set rows in the style and in the prt file both.
Same result. I am using STANDARD CHECK FORMAT
for this printing.
We are using Financials 10.7 SC (Character base) on Solaris.
TIA
-- Javaid Ansari
cc: (bcc: Dominic Dicondina/Wayne/Recovery)
Subject: Re: AP: Check Printing
Hi ,
I am also facing the same problem only. I have
changed the Print style, Printer Driver and SRW
driver in fnd/reports directory. But the system is
not reading the new drivers.It is still printing in
the old way only. I just want to increase the page
height. I am working in Rel 11 in windows NT.
Oracle Apps Tech.gurus please help us.
With regards
M.rajesh
From: ddicondina@SUNGARDRS.COM
Subject: Re: AP: Check Printing
After changes are made to print drivers you must bounce the concurrent
managers for the changes to take affect.
Dominic DiCondina
SunGard Recovery Services Inc.
From: joseph peeriz peerizm@rocketmail.com
Subject: Re: AP: Check Printing
Hi Dominic,
I have restarted the concurrent manager several
times after changing the driver. Still it is printing
in the same old way only. Does Dos print command use
any specific driver files in DOS os?.
Thank you.
With regards
M.Rajesh
From: "Catherine Gauchat" catherine_gauchat@tcibr.com
Subject: printing checks
Hi All,
We print checks on preprinted check stock using a HP 3SI. When we test
with regular paper everything works fine. When we use the check stock
one check comes out blank, throwing off the numbering sequence. This
blank page isn't stuck to another page, it comes out of the printer at a
regular interval but with nothing on it.
I think this is problem with the printer and the weight of the paper.
So my question is: What kind of printers are people using with
preprinted forms?
Thanks,
Catherine
From: Elton Chiu/VSE/CA echiu@vse.ca
Subject: Re: printing checks
Hi Catherine,
If you get blank pages at regular inteval, it is very unlikely a problem
with the printer or the weight of paper. Check the number of lines of the
Format Check concurrent program and make sure it matches the line number of
the print style and print driver. You can also try using a form feed at
the end of each cheque so it doesn't depend on the line count.
Good luck!
Elton Chiu
Vancouver Stock Exchange
From: SCross@littonapd.com
Subject: RE: printing checks
We use a Lexmark Optra + with preprinted forms for AP and Payroll.
Susan
From: "Suresh Pillaipakkam Bagukkudumbi" sureshpb@hotmail.com
Subject: Check Printing Problem in AP
Hi,
I am trying to print checks using APXPBFEG.rdf without any customization
using Evergreen Forms (Continues Stationary). Although the printing part
has been done, I am facing a problem in moving the contents to the left. I
want to give the left margin value as 2. The output file does not have any
margin, but while printing the printer (HP Laserjet 5si) is giving some
default left margin.
While the old (10.5 Character version) is printing the report using a
initialization string without any problems, the new (10.7 GUI) on AIX is not
able to get rid of the left margin.
Can any one suggest me a initialization string!!
One more problem, if I give any initialization string in the GUI version the
printer prints the inititalization string as it is except for escape (\e)
and ampersand (&).
Thanks
P B Suresh
From: "Reynolds, Tomy T" tomy.reynolds@eds.com
Subject: RE: Check Printing Problem in AP
When the initialization string shows on the page it means the string has not
been properly entered. In GUI the string should be highlighted, deleted, and
re-entered. Do not cut and paste into the field. As far as modifying the
margin, you need to refer to the HP PCL configuration parameters and modify
the initialization string accordingly. You should contact HP and request the
faxback document.
Hope this helps!
From: philip@aleytys.pc.my
To: "Suresh Pillaipakkam Bagukkudumbi" sureshpb@hotmail.com,
Subject: Re: Check Printing Problem in AP
Hi! I encountered this problem in setting up printer init strings. What
I found it that the GUI forms use a different character set compared to
the character mode screens. Most printer manuals expect that you are
using 7 bit USASCII. If you key in any non alpha-numeric character you
are likely to get rubbish.
Example the Epson ESCP/2 command to reset the printer according to the
manuals is: {ESC}@ (that is escape curly-at). This works if you key it
in the Char mode form but gives you funny results in GUI.
This is because the actual printer code is ESC + CHR(064). CHR(064) is
"@" in ASCII7 but the GUI uses a different NLS_LANG so if you type in "@"
in the GUI you actually are typing in something else.
I found that the safest method is to use the escape syntax in keying in
printer init strings. e.g. for {ESC}@ I would type in "/e/064" where
/nnn is the three dec character string CHR() representing the "@"
character in the USASCII7 charset.
Now for another question.
Both the printer styles and printer driver windows have a field to
specify the SRW printer driver (e.g. P, L, W etc). Then you assign
combinations of drivers and styles to printer types.
How do the specified SRW drivers interact in the style/driver
combination? One of the documents recently referenced in ORA-APPS
suggests the the SRW driver must be the same in each style/driver
combination. Does anybody have anything definitive on this?
Philip
From: "Dave Drabo" ddrabo@osage.com
Subject: AP:Check signature
DB 8.0.5
Apps 11.0.2 - implementation Oracle FastTrack
Upgraded to 11.0.3
Printer HP8000
Does anyone have experience setting up Evergreen Format check printing.
We have received and installed the HP DIMM w/ the signature, entered the
esc sequence into the program initialization string APXPBFEG. The
escalation point went away, but still no signature. I opened a TAR
w/Oracle - they seem clue less.
Any help?
Dave
From: "Maliszewski, Joseph" Joseph.Maliszewski@FMR.COM
Subject: AP: Check signature
I recall having to run some scripts to update the data. I did it about 2
years ago. They (Evergreen) had sent some pretty detailed instructions and
we just followed them. Evergreen support was also pretty good. Have you
tried calling them?
Joe Maliszewski
Consultant
From: "Dave Drabo" ddrabo@osage.com
Subject: Re: AP: Check signature
I purchased the signature cartridge through HP, does this mean I can't use
the
Evergreen format?
Dave
From: "Maliszewski, Joseph" Joseph.Maliszewski@FMR.COM
Subject: RE: AP: Check signature
I would imagine not. That is only a guess though. I have always
implemented the signature features through the proprietary vendors cartridge
(Evergreen, Bottom-line, etc.)
Does HP say it will work with the Evergreen format?
Please let us know.
Joe Maliszewski
Consultant
From: "Dave Drabo" ddrabo@osage.com
Subject: RE: AP Check signature
Issue resolved! Thanks for those that responded -
Here is what worked -
Edit escape sequences in $FND_TOP/reports/APLASP.prt (driver for laser
check printing using evergreen format) per HP's note that accompanied
the DIMM and then add an "S" right after the sequence including the
double quotes.
Product overview:
HP print cartridge supplied by HP not evergreen!
Apps 11.0.3
Solaris 2.6, DB oracle 8.0.5
Dave