High Speed Printer
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:04:09 +0800 (SGT)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 04:13:21 -0500 Printer not defaulting
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:45:47 -0600 (CST)
A couple of things:
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:39:06 -0800
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:02:02 +1000 Printing Options
Hi,
Is there anyway to change the printing option (Copies) to 1 for all the
reports. The default value for all the reports is appearing as 0 and we
would like to change it to 1. Is there any way to change the default
value?
Date: 3 Apr 99 20:32:08 EST
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:02:52 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 18:36:03 PDT Change font/size for the report
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:31:29 -0500 (CDT)
Basanta --
Because the Oracle Applications use the character-mode of Reports 2.5, you
will need to change the font through the applications printer driver for that
style of report. (Look for the "Define Printer Driver" form under the Systems
Administrator's Responsibility). This will require some research (try
the HP web site) to determine which "escape" sequence will enable the font
that you are looking for. I strongly recommend leaning toward the "fixed
pitch" fonts (i.e. courier, letter gothic, etc.) vs. the porportional fonts
(Times, Univers, etc.) for most reports that come out of the Oracle
Applications (porportional fonts will give you headaches over
column-allignment). Personally, I'm a big fan of letter gothic. ;^)
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Date: 9 Apr 99 06:43:09 EDT
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 08:13:25 -0500 Printer Output
From: philip@aleytys.pc.my [mailto:philip@aleytys.pc.my]
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:43:26 -0500 OptioDSC
From: Joanna Wu [mailto:jwu@dpc.com]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 07:38:33 -0400 Printing Bitmap Report
Varun wrote
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:29:31 PDT
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:06:35 -0500 Page feed after 33 lines
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 08:06:10 IST
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 12:38:25 +0800
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:47:29 IST
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 11:52:21 +0800 Printers on NT
From: kranti atluri
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 16:46:53 +1200
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:37:22 -0400
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:15:35 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:39:45 EST
From: Rudy Wahab
To: Mary Shamray
Subject: RE: High Speed Printer in Oracle
Hi Mary,
You mentioned here that you successfully setup HP8100DN printer in
Oracle Applications. Did you use any existing driver in the application
like HP LJ4 ? Or Did you setup totally new driver for this HP 8100 DN
printer?
I call Oracle Support but they said they could not me on
setting this printer and it is up to me to set it. Not much help huh from
them.
Thanks in advance
regards,
From: "Mary Shamray"
To: Rudy Wahab
Subject: RE: High Speed Printer in Oracle
I set up my own. This took some time. Print out the pcl documentation from cd.
It will help alot. Alot of trial and error. Just remember after making a
change to reset your managers. Test as many reports as you can.
Mary
From: "James J. Morrow" jmorrow@csac.com
Cc: jmorrow@csac.com
Subject: Re: Printer not defaulting - Oracle Applications Ver 11.0.2
Hi all
I have assigned a default printer to a user via system profile. When I request a report and select completion option printer is not defaulted. I have restarted concurrent managers. I have logged out of application and relogin, but printer is not defaulted.
Any suggestions !!
Thank you in advance.
Rosy.
1) The user must not have another profile option set at a lower level
that overrides your setting:
Site
Application
Responsibility
User-----("User" trumps them all!)
2) That printer (in order to be usable as a "default") must have a
driver defined for the style(s) that your particular report is
wanting. For example: You define a printer named "LaserJet"
The Report you're trying to run might want to be run in "Landscape"
mode (132x80). So, in order to use this printer for that report
(or for it to even appear as an option when you try to submit)
a driver must exist that is capable of handling a report of those
dimensions.
I would suggest that you have a printer driver defined for each
of the following styles on all of your printers (ESPECIALLY the
default one!)
STYLE----------- DIMENSIONS
----------------- ----------
Portrait---------- 80 x 65
Landscape-------- 132 x 65
LandWide--------- 180 x 65
A4-------------- 80 x 65 (although no one in the US should
need this!)
Hope this helps!
-- James
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From: Cyndie Winrow cwinrow@mail.sdsu.edu
Subject: Re: ORAAPPS-L digest 2983
Hi Rosy ~
I had such fun with this same problem! We're running apps v11.0.2 on Sun
Solaris platform. There is a system concurrent profile setting for number
of report copies (think it looks like "Conc: Number of Report Copies"), and
it must be set to 1 in order for your default printers to come in,
regardless of whether you set the printers at the site, appl, respons or
user. Couple of issues to consider w/ turning this profile to 1: this means
that any new user defined needs to have a printer profile or else some of
the requests they try to run will error out (often when the request submits
it goes out and retrieves any user profile values); also, if a user wants
to run a request that would normally print but doesn't want to print, you
have to do a workaround in order not to print (go into completion options,
put cursor on the printer field, go to Edit Clear Record, OK and submit).
Hope that helps :)
Cyndie Winrow
San Diego State University
From: Ruby Khaw r.khaw@qut.edu.au
Subject: Re: Printer not defaulting - Oracle Applications Ver 11.0.2
Rosy
Sorry for this rather late reply but I just noticed your e-mail.
We have the same problem with rel 11.0.2 as well and the solution for us
was to apply patch 736455 on advice from Oracle Support.
Hope it works for you too.
Ruby
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Basanta.
From: Alok Chadda alok_chadda@usa.net
Subject: RE:Change Printing Options
Hi Basanta,
Change the User Profile Concurrent:Report Copies to 1.
HTH
Alok
From: "James J. Morrow" jmorrow@csac.com
Subject: Re: Change Printing Options
I would strongly recommend caution when implementing this "solution",
especially when setting it at anything besides the "user" level. Also, you
should to set the "Printer" profile option for EVERY user impacted by this
"Concurrent : Report Copies" profile option. Otherwise, every time someone
runs a "little" report, it will spit paper out of the printer specified
in the "Site" level profile (or the system default printer). This usually
means that one of the printers in your MIS dept. will be spitting out tons
of useless reports.
So, be very cautious when using this parameter. Otherwise, you may get buried
beneath a mound of paper!
-- James
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From: "Basanta Kumar Dash" dashbk@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Change Printing Options
Message-ID: 19990406013604.40579.qmail@hotmail.com
James,
Thank you very much. I realised this just after implementing this
solution.
Basanta.
From: "James J. Morrow" jmorrow@csac.com
Subject: Re: Change font for the report
Hi,
We are trying to print a report on a laser printer (HP Jet4). is there a
way to change the font of the output? We have tried to change the font
at the report level and does not seem to work.
Your help is most appreciated.
Thanks.
Regards,
Basanta.
Don't forget to "bounce" your concurrent managers when you make the change.
-- James
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Dallas, Texas (972) 960-0180 x244
Hi,
Does anybody know how to change the initilization string for the
printer driver in APPS to print different fonts and sizes? Is there
any standard guidelines for this? Do I need to change the
initialization string to change the fonts and the size?
All our landscape reports with A4HPLJ4SI style (provided by oracle)
is printing smaller fonts which is not visible to our old directors.
I have created a new driver with null initialization string, but
there is no change in the output.
I would appreciate the help from any corner.
This is critical as the issue has gone to our old DIRECTORS.
Thank you in advance.
Basanta.
From: Dinesh Chandra dchandra@usa.net
Subject: Re: [Change Output Fonts and Size]
Hi,
Look number before H or h in the initialization string. This number is number
of characters per inch. You can reduce this but you should have right margin
on your A4 paper.
Cheers
Dinesh Chandra
From: "Carver, Elizabeth" ecarver@MarkAndy.com
Subject: FW: Change Output Fonts and Size
I would try changing the initialization string. This is all UNIX commands.
Find the UNIX commands to change font and size and add them to
initialization string. Remember the database must be restarted after
modifying print drivers for changes to take affect. Also if this report is
using an overlay (or pre-printed form) The hex code for this can also be
modified to set font and size. On line help for this form will give examples
of initialization strings.
Beth Carver
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Printer Output
On 5 Apr 99 at 21:21, Basanta Kumar Dash wrote:
We are trying to print on HP laser printer from Oracle Apps (WinNT, Rel
11). The first page of the output is printing one line with following
information:
"(
/@PJL { currentfile 256 string readline pop pop } bind def"
This looks like postscript. Does your HP printer support postscript?
Not all do.
Philip
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From: "Logan, Ernie" Ernie_Logan@bmc.com
Subject: RE: Printer Output
It's definitely Postscript. Either printer does not support PS, or you used
the HP drivers for Apps which have PCL setup strings. HP printers, even if
they support PS, will not switch to that mode if they see PCL setup strings.
Create custom Apps drivers with no initialization string for printing PS to
HP printers.
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Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 6:48 PM
Subject: Optio question
Hi,
Does anyone can give me a brief explanation on how OptioDCS work with
Oracle?
OptioDSC will run on WindowsNT server.
7.3.4 database and 10.7 NCA on Sun Solaris 2.6.
Optio sales rep told us that we need to setup a virtual printer through
Oracle Application. Do we have to setup a virtual printer on OS level?
It is so confuse. How does Optio from NT communicate with Oracle on
UNIX?
Thanks
Joanna
From: "Cotten, Jim" Jim.Cotten@respironics.com
Subject: RE: Optio question
In essence, you have it. There is a "printer" set up at the Unix level
which is really the output processor. This Optio processor can be on
the unix box or another machine. You also setup printers in Oracle to
point to this "printer". The output leaves the application, goes to the
Optio formatter, and then Optio sends it to the actual printer. The
process has very low overhead and is very fast. The users do not know
what is happening, nor should they care. All they have to know is which
printer to select to get the output they desire. Optio also ahs a new
product, the Cocument Access Server, which provides Web based veiwing of
documents and reports which uses the same functionality.
My configuration is not the same as yours, but the Optio "print queue"
on the unix box will probably be a "rm rp" type queue pointing to the NT
box. It would be the same type queue as if you had a printer attached
to the com port on the NT box (not a network printer) and you wanted to
print to it. Respond directly to me if you have further questions.
Hi everyone
We need to run a customized report (2.5) bitmap which uses different fonts,
logo etc. After registering it with the option - Version 2.0b, it gives an
error - 'duplicate arguments'.
We have Oracle Apps installed on an Unix server. Now if we register a laser
printer in Apps and report is registered with option 2.0b will I be able to
get the desired output on the laser printer. Please guide me, for it escapes
me as to where will the report pick the fonts from??
Thanks very much
Regards
Varun Mehra (citizen999@rediffmail.com)
From: "Alok Chadda" alok_chadda@excite.com
To: citizen999@rediffmail.com
Subject: RE:Customized Report Format
I always do the following steps along with registering the printer to run
bitmap report and it should take Fonts etc. from the report setting only.
Do the following steps :
1. While registering the report set program options to
VERSION2.0b.
2. Add the following line at the end of
$ORACLE_HOME/guicommon2/tk23/admin/uiprint.txt file:
ljcrp1:PostScript:1:The default printer if $PRINTER is not
set:default.ppd:
PS: Change ljcrp1 with your network printer name.
HTH
Alok
From: "Oracle App Forum (From)" oug@deltaware.com
Subject: Printing Bitmap images on Oracle Payables Reports
Hi All!
We are trying to develop for our client an option for printing forms on
reports using REPORTS2.5. We are having difficulty printing reports
which contain shading, logos,signatures,lines and boxes. Signatures is the
most important issue at this time
Following are a list of steps we have performed to date.....
1.) We have a HP4000TN laswerjet printer which is PostScript Compatible and
set to
AUTO personality.
2.) We are using Financials 10.7, Unix Database 7.3.2.3
3.) Our printers are all working properly in Oracle and have been.
4.) We have created a print Driver in the financials with no setup
Strings
5.) We have added the line VERSION=2.0b to the executable options
6.) We get output when the report is run , but all we get is the report
with proper output data but there are 16 stars in the middle of
the report.
We think that the ppd file may be the fix to our problem. We have tried
through HP to get a ppd driver file for UNIX but there are none
available. We have also tried the 2 hp ppd files that are in the ppd
directory, they have failed us also.
Any ideas that you have would be greatly appreciated as we are under
some time constraints.
Mark MacDougall
Systems Consultant
Deltaware Systems Inc.
535 North River Road
Charlottetown, PEI
C1E 1J6, Canada
(902) 368-8122
mailto:mmacdougall@deltaware.com
http://www.deltaware.com
From: "Logan, Ernie" Ernie_Logan@bmc.com
Subject: RE: Printing Bitmap images on Oracle Payables Reports
First, change your 4000TN setup to Print PS Errors=ON on the Printing Menu.
Then try printing your report again. If you don't get a PS error page, you
probably are not sending postscript to the printer at all. If you do get the
error page, it should be able to tell you something about what is happening.
We use the 4000TN here with no problems. The seeded PPD files do work. We
did change them to something else, but that was to better support some Xerox
PS printers.
Also, check the uiprint.txt file in
ORACLE_HOME/guicommon2/tk23(tk21?)/admin. My experience is that the only
line ever used by Oracle Apps is the first line in this file. It should be
the printer you set as $PRINTER when starting concurrent managers, and it
should be the description you wish to use for the 4000TN.
From: "abc abc" k_file2@hotmail.com
Subject: Page Feed after 33 lines instead of 66 in EPSON LQ -2070 printer
Hi All,
I have a report (Payment Advice - customized) which uses pre-printed form
of 33 lines height. So I want my printer to give a page feed after printing
every 33 lines. To get it I took the following steps:
1.made a copy of L.prt(/prodapps/fnd/11.0.28/reports/L.prt) file and
named it L_PYMT_ADV.prt with Height 33.
2.Created a new printer driver LSCAPEDMTX1_Pymt using L_PYMT_ADV as the
SRW driver. I didn't change Arguments, initialization & Reset fields (do I
have to change?).
3. Created a new Style LANDSCAPE_PYMT_ADV using the above SRW driver and
set Columns-132 & Rows - 33.
4. Applied Style LANDSCAPE_PYMT_ADV and driver LSCAPEDMTX1_Pymt to the
printer type DMTX1.
5.In report (.rdf file) I changed the report height so that it prints
only 33 lines per page (report property).
Report is coming properly in previewer i.e. with 33 lines per page. But
when I am printing it,it prints 33 line and then skips next 33 line i.e.
giving a page feed after 66(A4) lines as before instead of giving a page
feed after 33 lines.
Your kind help is sincerely solicited.
Thanks and regards,
Kuntal
From: justin.hsu@smtplink.mic.com.tw
Subject: Re: Page Feed after 33 lines instead of 66 in EPSON LQ -2070
Dear,
Do you remove the "between pages control(L)" in the new L_PYMT_ADV.prt file ?
It will cause R25 send "form feed" to printer when page break for each 33
lines.
Justin Hsu
From: "abc abc" k_file2@hotmail.com
Subject: Thank you Justin!
Dear Justin,
Thank you for the solution. It's now working so perfectly! It was giving
me lots of trouble. I had to put so much time in vain!
One more question - where should I refer to, to know the meaning of
different commands in .prt files?
Thank you once again. Bye,
Kuntal Ray
From: justin.hsu@smtplink.mic.com.tw
Subject: Re: Thank you Justin!
Dear,
The solution was found by tring error.
And, I only see them in the Oracle Application System
Administration's Chart 9 Printer.
I think the .PRT is a function of printer control code definition
in Report25 Char Mode , but I can not find any document about it in
dev/2000(Client).
I am sorry.
Bye
Justin
Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 1999 07:43
Subject: RE: Printers on NT
Hi Everyone
We are running into a problem with our applications on NT. We are not able
to print from NT server from Oracle Applications. We can print from NT
applications but not from Oracle. Nothing comes out of the server not even
blank paper.
Our Configuration:
NT servers both tiers
Rel 11.0.2
Printers on a print server.
Any help on this is greatly appreciated...
Kranti Atluri
Millenia Vision Corporation
650-968-9000
From: Erica Harris EricaH@wairc.govt.nz
Subject: RE: Printers on NT
You need to uncheck the Standard Input box in the printer driver
definition window.
And change the arguments line. Following is an example from one of our
printer definitions:
print /d:\\vitalstatistix\$PROFILES$.PRINTER $PROFILES$.FILENAME
The queue for the printer doesn't have to be on the same box as the
database either.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Erica
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 8:50 AM
Subject: SA:Printing problem on NT
Hi,
We are having a lot of trouble getting a printer to
print from Oracle
Applications. I have tried all sorts different things,
none seem to
be working. I have been talking back and forth with
Oracle and they
are stumped as well. As far as they are concerned the
printer is set
up correctly in Oracle, as am I.
We are on R11 on NT. We can print from other
applications as well as
DOS using the PRINT command. Both of these work fine
on a few
different printers. When we request a job from Oracle,
it completes
normal and the log says it prints fine, however, it
seems to get lost
somewhere.
Our printer name and path is \\CARECAN_P5\Gemini. This
is the name
registered in Oracle. Our driver is:
PRINT /d:$profiles$.printer $profiles$.filename
Does anyone know where and when the arguments
$profiles$.printer and
$profiles$.filename are passed? Is this done before or
after the
operating system recieves the job? Is there a log or
something I can
check in NT? I think this may be an operating system
issue. I have
gotten a printer to work at another site using the same
steps.
Any advise would be great.
Thanks
Richard
From: "West, Bob" BWest@MFPS.COM
Subject: RE: Printing problem on NT
Richard,
Make sure when registering the printer in the printer definition
that the name is enclosed in quotes like the following
"\\CARECAN_P5\Gemini". The NT share name must be identical to Gemini. I
believe the parameters are passed after the print job is generated and
dumped into the log directory.
Hope this helps.
You know we really should find less stressful ways to make a living!!
Bob West
(717)262-1714
bwest@mfps.com
Martins Famous Pastry Shoppe Inc.
From: sean a seansd@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: SA:Printing problem on NT
Are you able to open up an oracles session on the
server with the printers? I had some problem initially
getting HP print jobs to go to the hp printer instead
of the oki. by having the printer screen open i could
watch where the oracle job really went and correct it.
This mainly happened becaue the printer jetdirects
were setup with dchp and I had just reset the dchp
server.
Sean
From: dmiller@psci.net
Subject: RE: Printing problem on NT
Noticed a couple of notes regarding not being able to print Oracle Apps 11.0
reports in NT. The situation is outlined as follows:
1. User can execute the print command from the command line successfully...
(print /d:\\server name\$PROFILES$.PRINTER $PROFILES$.FILENAME.
2. When attempting to print via Oracle Apps, you never see that the print
job ever went to the print queue.
Resolution:
From a bulletin I received from Oracle (Article ID 68408.1),
you need to make sure that the account GUEST on the server where the
printer is located is enabled. This fixed our problem and we are printing
to Apple postscript printers