Landscape Printouts with IBM 4230 Line printers
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:01:07 -0400
From: arhodes@inco.net
Subject: Landscape Printouts with IBM 4230 Line printers
We are implementing the full suite of Financials and partial Manufacturing
Oracle Applications 10.7NCA Prod 16.1 with an Oracle 8.0.3.2.1 database.
Forms middle tier and database server are both on an IBM SP AIX platform.
My issue is that I am unable to send codes to an IBM 4230 Line Printer that
will enable me to change the font, line spacing, etc. of the text. In the
printer manual, it only gives me HEX codes that the printer is able to
accept for these settings. Oracle Applications expects escape codes, or at
the very least octal, in the initialization string of the driver. I have
tried converting the HEX to Octal and using this in the initialization
string, with no success. I also have tried the standard Oracle
Applications printer type/styles/drivers for the Epson FX850, with no
success. If anyone else out there has worked with these or similar old
line printers and has any suggestions, please respond.
Thanks,
Angie Rhodes
Oracle Applications System Administrator
Inco Alloys International, a Special Metals Company
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:45:05 +0100
From: wbizri@sa.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Landscape Printouts with IBM 4230 Line printers
Try to define the printer as a remote printing using "Standard Processing"
instead of "Local Filtering before sending to print server". That is if
your printer is connected to the network not directly to the AIX server.
When the printer is defined as "Local Filtering", the AIX software filters
out escape sequence that it does not recognize. On the other hand, using
"Standard Processing", no filtering is performed, and escape can be send.
All control for page size, font, orientations, etc., will have to be
handle for the application.
Best Regards,
Wael A. Bizri
Print queue control
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:53:26 -0500
From: GEN OUSER genouser@mcquay.com
Subject: Print queue control
Our customer has a requirement to print several different types of
labels that require different print stock for printing. The labels are
typically printed on a specific printer, therefore the print stock needs to
be changed prior to printing each different label. The requirement is to be
able to control requests from Oracle going to a printer by 'queueing up'
and releasing label-specific requests, as the print stock is changed. Also,
some "on demand" print requests will come from the Novell network through a
local PC application (Excel). This means that labels will be printing from
both UNIX and Netware. Both Netware and UNIX queues need to be monitored
separately.
Has anyone experience of this situation, and implemented a satisfactory
solution? (We are currently looking at LP Plus from Plus Technologies for
UNIX queue management, and QView Pro for Netware queue management.)
Thanks in advance for any help or information.
Joff Simmons
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 03:53:13 MYT-8
From: philip@aleytys.pc.my
To: GEN OUSER genouser@mcquay.com, oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Print queue control
Hi,
Instead of buying both LP Plus and Qview Pro you could stick to one
product and use Netware's "Unix Print Services" to feed all print jobs via
the Netware queue ( use Qview Pro - nice product we use it here ) or via
the Unix Queue (LP Plus - I looked at this but didn't buy this in the
end).
This means you can save on not having to buy either QviewPro or LP Plus.
Since we had been a netware shop since before buying Oracle Financials
and all of our printers are connected via Netware what I did was to point
all our unix queues at the lpd service on our Netware servers.
Philip
Printing 1099 Forms on Laser Printer
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 09:47:53 -0500
From: Rose Mettler rmettler@mdp.com
Subject: Printing 1099 Forms on Laser Printer
To All:
Just wondering if any of you have printed the 1099 tax forms
with a laser printer and could share that experience with me. We are
currently on Oracle version 10.7 SC. In particular was wondering if any of
you had used multi-part forms and/or 1099 mailers.
rmettler@mdp.com
Rose Mettler
Oracle Financial Systems Administration
x-2534
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:00:59 -0400
From: jteague@suburban.com
Subject: Re: Printing 1099 Forms on Laser Printer
Rose we had a lot of problems running our 1099s. We ended up dumping the
standard report to a text file and reformating in order to run it against our
laser printer. Hopefully others had fewer hassles than we did.
Jim
Senior Financial Systems Analyst
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:16:41 -0500
From: Rose Mettler rmettler@mdp.com
Subject: Re: Printing 1099 Forms on Laser Printer
Jim,
What kind of tax forms did you use? Was the problem trying to get
the forms lined up or what caused your problem?
Thanks
Rose
rmettler@mpd.com
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 06:11:42 -0700
From: "sean smith" kiowasean@zdnetmail.com
Subject: Re: Printing 1099 Forms on Laser Printer
We had significant problems also. We ended up plagiarizing the logic from
the standard 1099 program and rewriting the layout in Developer 2k in order
to make the data appear correctly on the form.
During this process, we received numerous "patches" from Oracle WWS, all of
which were trying to keep the report in "Character" mode, which we
determined was virtually improssible. The standard 3 part 1099's the irs
issued this year would not line up under any circumstances if the report
wasn't in bitmap mode, allowing uneven spacing.
Printing in Ch. mode/large font
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:57:05 +0300
From: Bashir Ali Alib@savola.com
Cc: Bashir Ali Alib@savola.com
Subject: Printing in LARGE FONT SIZE in character mode
Dear All,
I am trying to create a report in character mode, in which I want the
print-out of layoutboilerplate and field to be large font Size approx 48,
for CARTON LABELS.
The print-out comes normal font on a ALIS dot matrix printer...
I would really appreciate if someone could help me know how to do it...
Tools used : Reports Designer 2.5
Oper. Syste : HP UX 11.
Oracle Applications: 10.7
With best regards
Bashir
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:21:47 +0300
From: Mohammad Fouwaaz Mfouwaaz@savola.com
Subject: Large Fonts -- printing in reports
Hi Apps Gurus,
We have customised a report in Order Entry and would like to have
large font printouts. At present our second-best solution is to use a laser
printer. Is there any way we could do this using a dot-matrix printer
instead (GENICOM 3810 S)?
Thanks in advance and with Best Regards
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:25:40 -0500
From: "Carver, Elizabeth" ecarver@MarkAndy.com
Subject: RE: Printing in LARGE FONT SIZE in character mode
Try the Define Print Driver form Arguments column you should be able to set
the font size and type. It would look something like this
-fCourier10 This would set font to Courier size 10
I think yours would be -f48 (these are your OS commands we are 10.7C HP UX
10.20)
You may want to create a new print style and new print driver for your
labels then assign the print driver to that style and make the new print
style required for the concurrent program
Beth Carver
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:48:05 MYT-8
From: philip@aleytys.pc.my
To: Mohammad Fouwaaz Mfouwaaz@savola.com, oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Large Fonts -- printing in reports
We have one of these. If I remember correctly they emulate an Epson FX
printer and respond to ESC/P commands. Try setting doublewidth and
double hight commands in your printer init strings.
Philip
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:53:57 +0300
From: Bashir Ali Alib@savola.com
To: ecarver@MarkAndy.com
Subject: RE: Printing in LARGE FONT SIZE in character mode
Thanks Carver for your help...
However, I checked out, our current defined Driver settings in the apps, it
states as following...
lp -c -d$PROFILES$.PRINTER -onobanner -n$PROFILES$.CONC_COPIES
-t"$PROFILES$.TITLE" $PROFILES$.FILENAME
I even tried from OS lp command with -f options... The OS says "illegal
option"
Any light you can provide on this...
Regards
Bashir
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:04:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: gaddam naveen gaddam_naveen@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Printing in LARGE FONT SIZE in character mode
If it is a charecter mode report,
create a printer driver in which you can specify
font size. you can also specify page size.( This
affects all fields )
or
try changing font size in layout ( i guess this wont work )
if you had a so;ution by this time let me know.
Bye
Naveen
Printer not printing FSG
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:58:05 -0400
From: "John Brietz" JBrietz@gwmail.valencia.cc.fl.us
To: oraapps-dba@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: FSG Printing troubles
Hi all. We are having trouble printing FSG's. We are Solaris 2.6, db
8.0.4, apps 11.0.2 using HP8000N, HP8100N.
When FSG's are sent to the printer, the file is generated, but not
physically printed. Any help with the issue is appreciated.
John Brietz
Oracle Applications DBA
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:07:30 PDT
From: shankar govindan shankargovindan@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-dba@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: FSG Printing troubles
John,
Try re-installing the printer. In case your printer is on a domain then
see if it is accessable from the server. Try adding the printer in the
server and sendind a test print. In case already added then see if you can
test print at the OS level. Isolate the problem step by step. In case the
printer is connected to the domain make sure the machine is available in the
domain and not logged in as local.I presume you got my point. Then lets see
if APPS is creating any issues.
Hope this would help.
Shankar
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:05:40 +0100
From: Philip West Philip.West@exco.co.uk
To: oraapps-dba@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: FSG Printing troubles
Can you clarify a bit.
You say that the file is sent to the printer; how do you know?
You say that it is not physically printed: are you sure?
When you print an FSG do you get a blank sheet/s out of the printer?
If this is the case it may be that the file is printing fine but with
carriage returns missing (common problem with FSGs). This results in
stepped output which may mean you get nothing on your paper, if you have
blank lines at the top of your report, or something that looks a bit like
this:
YOUR FSG NAME
DATE OF REPORT
PAGE NUMBER
TITLE BAR OF REPORT
everything else off the page
This can/may be remedied by forcing your printer to interpret line feeds,
carriage returns and form feeds. You do this with a tweak of the printer
initialisation string in Financials / Navigate Install Printer Driver
Define. For HP printers add the following to the end of your initialisation
string as appropriate.
Interpretation---------------initialisation sequence
CR=CR;LF=LF;FF=FF-------------- /e&k0G
CR=CR+LF----------------------/e&k1G
LF=CR+LF;FF=CR+LF-------------/e&k2G
CR=CR+LF;CR+LF;FF=CR+LF-------/e&k3G
I have found that /e&k2G normally does the trick. You need to ensure that
other reports using the same printer driver are not adversely affected.
You need to deselect the printer driver in the / navigate install printer
driver assign screen before you can alter the driver definition.
Alternatively create a custom driver based on the original so that you
retain the original. You then need to stop and start the internal manager
for the changes to take place.
Best Regards
Phil West - Oracle Financials DBA
Telephone: 44 171 9509385
E-mail: philip.west@exco.co.uk
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:43:36 -0400
From: "John Brietz" JBrietz@gwmail.valencia.cc.fl.us
To: oraapps-dba@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: FSG Printing troubles
Thanks Phillip. Your solution worked. After I put the /e&k2G at the
end of the initialization string, they print correctly.
John Brietz
Docs being printed twice thru Apps
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:44:00 +0100
From: "Singh, Gagandeep " Gagandeep.Singh@scottishpower.plc.uk mailto:Gagandeep.Singh@scottishpower.plc.uk
Subject: Printer Problem
Hi All,
For some apparent reason all the reports on one of my printers HPLJ4
is printing off twice from APPS. I have checked the number of copies
option for the conc. programs ...as well as the profile option Conc.
Copies....is there anything i am missing ??
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Gagan
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:51:48 -0500
From: "Logan, Ernie" Ernie_Logan@bmc.com
Subject: RE: Printer Problem
Check the COPIES item on the Printing menu on the physical printer.
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:41:14 -0700
From: CFowler@littonapd.com
Subject: RE: Printer Problem
Hi,
Have you checked the settings on the printer itself to be sure it is not set
up to print two copies??
Candace
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:47:13 -0500
From: Michael S Barone Michael.S.Barone@Cummins.com
Subject: Re: Printer Problem
Gagan:
Assuming a UNIX implementation of your Oracle Applications:
You can force a number-of-print-copies by changing/modifying your
UNIX
"PRT" filename in the $FND_TOP/srw/?????.prt file. You can determine
which UNIX PRT file your report is using via:
System Admin (Responsibility)
Navigate
Install
Printer
Driver
Note your "SRW Driver" ... usually HPL (Landscape HP) HPW (LandWide
HP)
and HPP (Portrait HP). These UNIX Files can be found in the
$FND_TOP/srw
directory with a "prt" extension.
For Example: our HPP.prt file contains the following:
before report "^[&l2X"
between pages control(L) "^[&l2X"
Where the "2X" control-sequence produces 2-Copies.
Postscript printing on HP
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:20:39 -0400
From: "Jethwa, Nilesh" Nilesh.Jethwa@mmt.bellhowell.com
Subject: postscript printing on HP
Hi all,
we r working on OA Release 11 and we have HP UX Release 11.0. but it
doesn't
have the 'enscript' command to print the postscript file( bitmap report
output).
Also checked with the HP support and they have 'enscript' lower version.I
can view
the output of the report by ftp'ing the file and then using GhostView.
how do i go about printing this postscript output file?Is there any
alternative way with 'lp' or 'lpr' ?
we cannot go ahead with the development of other bitmap reports till this
issue is solved. please help.
TIA
Nilesh
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:34:06 MYT-8
From: philip@aleytys.pc.my
To: "Jethwa, Nilesh" Nilesh.Jethwa@mmt.bellhowell.com, oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: postscript printing on HP
As far as I know, enscript takes a text file and outputs postscript to
drive postscript printers. Since you file is already in postscript
format you don't need enscript.
Since you are using GhostView I guess you are familiar with Ghostscript.
Install Ghostscript on your HP UX server and use that instead.
Philip
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:35:59 -0500
From: "Logan, Ernie" Ernie_Logan@bmc.com
Subject: RE: postscript printing on HP
Use lp. Define a driver with no initialization or reset strings. You don't
need any special command to print postscript from HP servers.
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:05:22 +0100
From: "Jonathan Stuart" jdstuart@globalnet.co.uk
Subject: Re: postscript printing on HP
The Oracle Toolkit looks after postscript printing. This software will
already be installed on your system and the correct runtimes are called
automatically when the concurrent job is defined appropriately. All you need
to do is configure the uiprint.txt file which is held in the following
directory:
$ORACLE_HOME/guicommon2/tk23/admin
This file is built using lines of the following format, which define the
printer queue name, the printer type (postscript or PCL), a description and
the printer driver to use:
ORLPRT17:PostScript:1:Orlando printer:default.ppd:
Jonathan.
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:23:31 -0400
From: "Jethwa, Nilesh" Nilesh.Jethwa@mmt.bellhowell.com
Subject: RE: postscript printing on HP
Hi ,
I am still stuck with the postscript problem. I defined a printer driver
with no
initialization or reset strings using 'lp' command with arguments as follows
( lp -c -d$PROFILES$.PRINTER -n$PROFILES$.CONC_COPIES -t"$PROFILES$.TITLE"
$PROFILES$.FILENAME ).
Then created an entry in the uiprint.txt file as
(pinncopy:PostScript:1:Second floor copier room :hpljet42.ppd:)
where 'pinncopy' is our printer.The concurrent managers shutdown and
restarted. But when the report completes normally
and i go to check the printout, there is a bunch of papers for the report.
It is just printing the text commands as it is
and not the bitmap output. I can still ftp the report output and view it
thru ghostview. Is it something that i missed?
Is there any way to setup the 'View Request Form' to directly open the
report output in ghostview.FYI: We r on Re.11 and I
have installed a copy of ghostview on the client side.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Nilesh
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:42:16 -0500
From: "Logan, Ernie" Ernie_Logan@bmc.com
Subject: RE: AOL: postscript printing on HP
Are you certain that the printer is postscript enabled? What printer are you
using? If an HP printer, is personality set to 'Auto'? What you are
describing is the result of sending postscript to a printer which does not
understand postscript.
As for the using ghostview directly from the View Request form, it is fairly
easy. For Netscape 4.0 and above, or IE, the configuration should be
automatic. The only thing you must do is ensure that the Viewer: Postscript
profile option is set to 'browser'. If using Netscape 3.x, you have to
configure a helper app for postscript files (application/postscript and
extensions ai,eps,ps) and set it up to use gsview32.exe.
File generated but not printed
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:19:46 -0500
From: Shane Bentz SBentz@IVCF.ORG
Subject: AOL: printing problems.
We have recently upgraded to 10.7 on an Alpha OpenVMS system with Oracle
7.3.2.3.2 and have AP, GL, and HR. We are experiencing problems with
printing. Whenever a Reports 2.5 report is submitted to the ConcMgr, the
log file contains the following error message: APP-01125 Concurrent Manager
got error running Oracle Reports for request xxxxx. The output file
contains the correct size and data but does not print. The REPORTS25_TMP
directory points to APPLTMP and a file is created there for printing, but it
is size zero.
We migrated one month ago ( over Memorial Day weekend ), but this
problem only started just a couple of weeks ago. Oracle Support is stumped
and ready to log this as a bug, which indicates to me it may be months
before we get it fixed. Anyone run into this before or know what is going
on? I'd be happy to share other information, but not sure what would be
helpful.
Shane.
Shane Bentz
Business Systems Developer
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA
6400 Schroeder Road
Madison, Wisconsin 53711
( 608 ) 274 4823 x326
sbentz@ivcf.org
http://www.ivcf.org
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:37:38 -0500
From: "Logan, Ernie" Ernie_Logan@bmc.com
Subject: RE: printing problems.
1) Is the file system (APPLTMP / REPORTS25_TMP) full?
2) Have you verified the permissions on this directory? Is it writeable to
applmgr? It must have been at some point, but...
3) Are concurrent managers being started as applmgr? Or did your sysadmin
decide to start them as another user?
Number 1 is the most likely culprit, in my experience.
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:58:44 -0500
From: Shane Bentz SBentz@IVCF.ORG
Subject: FW: AOL: printing problems.
I forgot to mention that when I issue a reprint from the detail form, it
creates an accurate file in appltmp and prints fine. So I know that it can
perform all the necessary steps to printing, it just doesn't seem to be
doing them.
Shane.
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:33:02 PDT
From: "raghu peddakotla" raghu_pdkotla@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: AOL: printing problems.
Hi,
We got same problem long back.It can be fixed with printer setup.
---Raghu.
Printer skips 10 lines printing inv register
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:41:21 -0400
From: "Bill Keenan" bkeenan@goodegg.com
Subject: Print Problems
Hi all,
I have modified the LANDSCAPEHPLJ4SI SRW driver "L" to a height of 66, from
57, so that my reports will print correctly, and not print an extra 9 lines
on a second page. All reports seem to print fine now on my HP4000 printers,
however I am still having a problem with the Payables "Invoice Register"
report. The spacing seems to be out of whack still, where after a few
vendors, the report skips roughly 10 lines and then continues on within the
same page.
I don't understand why just this report is giving me problems. Has anyone
run into this before? Any ideas as to what I can do?
Any help would be appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Bill
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:05:30 +1000
From: bhanton@jbwere.com.au
Subject: RE: Print Problems
This is only a suggestion, but may be relevant, check the profile option
"Maximum Page Length'. I had a similar problem and found that the default
for the maximum page length was set at 58. It's just a thought.
Bev Hanton
Project Manager - Oracle Financial Systems
Phone: 9679 1271
Fax: 9679 1113
E-mail: bhanton@jbwere.com.au mailto:bhanton@jbwere.com.au
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:24:58 -0400
From: "Bill Keenan" bkeenan@goodegg.com
Subject: Re: Print Problems
Hi Bev,
Thanks for the tip, it is set to 58. Did you change it to 66, and was your
problem resolved? Did it effect anything else?
Thanks again,
Bill
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:42:51 +1000
From: bhanton@jbwere.com.au
Subject: RE: Print Problems
Hi Bill,
You can leave the default at 58 at the site level and change the value at
the user level. This profile option is one that users can control
themselves, and it won't change the standard reports that use other drivers.
Do you have a test or development system that you can experiment with, as
you need to run a variety of reports just to make sure they are all still
printing as you expect them to. Make sure you run a couple of FSG's as
well, because they can cause all sorts of problems.
Bev Hanton
Project Manager - Oracle Financial Systems
Phone: 9679 1271
Fax: 9679 1113
E-mail: bhanton@jbwere.com.au mailto:bhanton@jbwere.com.au
Printer setup to print FSGs
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:09:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Balalji Sundaralingam CMCISSB@NJTRANSIT.STATE.NJ.US
Subject: FSG Print Setup ......
Application : 10.7SC
Client : 10.7NCA
1) The Date and Time gets printed after about 15 positions
from the last column and because of which, the size of report
extends by another 40 characters unnecessarily (15 blank spaces +
25 spaces for printing the date and time). I would like it
to be aligned within the last column. The title of the report
is hardly 15 characters-Single line and so that doesn't play a role
here.
2) Some FSG reports are 80 col and others are 132 col/150 col etc.,
In 10.7NCA - How and where do you fix the font permanently?
(so that user's could print the report without going thru the selection
of
the font etc.,)
Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
Bala
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:21:50 -0500
From: "Kanakam, Venkat (c)" vkanakam@Carlson.com
Subject: RE: FSG Print Setup ......
Hi Balaji,
You can have FSG reports with FIXED widths of 80, 132, 180 and 255 ONLY. We
can not have reports having WIDTH in between these numbers. If you develop a
FSG with columns extending till, say 140 Chars, FSG formats the report as
180 chars wide, giving a blank space of (180-140) = 40 chars wide. The date
and page numbers are printed at extreme right completing the FIXED width.
For 80 chars wide FSG report you can use FSG portrait print style , after
setting the profile option FSG: Allow portrait Style to YES. Font sizes are
controlled by Printer driver initialization strings.
HTH
Venkat Kanakam
Consultant
CIBER, Inc.
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Balalji Sundaralingam CMCISSB@NJTRANSIT.STATE.NJ.US
Subject: Re: FSG Print Setup ......
hi Venkat,
Thank you very much for the information.
Bala.
FSG reports are printed only in Landscape mode
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:26:22 -0400
From: "Bill Keenan" bkeenan@goodegg.com
Subject: FSG Print Problem
Hi,
I am having a problem printing an FSG report Portrait style. The columns
only are out to position 68, so it should run portrait style, but no matter
what it prints landscape.
Does anyone know why this is happening? Do I need to change the print style
somewhere?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 99 16:01:45 -0800
From: sagarwal@guthy-renker.com
Subject: Re: FSG Print Problem
change the sequence no. of potrait to less than landscape and try.
Sanjay Agarwal
sagarwal@guthy-renker.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:02:31 +0800
From: Bill Shand w.shand@cowan.edu.au
Subject: RE: FSG Print Problem
Hi
There is a profile option "FSG: Allow Portrait Print Style" that needs
to be set to yes to enable portrait printing.
Bill Shand
System Accountant
Edith Cowan University