Printers setup in Oracle Applications

Prerequisites:

Printers should be first defined and enabled at Unix OS level (OS admin will do it) .

Command to check printer status at UNIX level is as below.

lpstat -a

Configure Printer in Oracle Applications:

The following is the order of Printer setup in Oracle Applications:

1. Define Driver

2. Define Style

3. Define Printer Type

4. Register the Printer

·         Define Driver:

Login to application using System Administrator

Define the printer driver, Install à Printer à Driver

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

Enter the Driver Name:

Enter the User Driver Name:

Description: Give some appropriate description

·         Define Style:

Login to application using System Administrator

Define the printer style, Install à Printer àStyle

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

 Style Name:

 Seq:

User Style:

·         Define Printer Type:

Login to application using System Administrator

Define the printer type, Install à Printer à Type

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

Type:

Style: Above Style name

Driver Name: Above Driver name

·         Register the Printer:

Login to application using System Administrator

Register a new printer, Navigation Path is Install à Printer àRegister

Please provide the below values (depending upon your configuration) to set up.

Printer: Printer Name

Type: Type defined earlier

Description: Useful description

Some important tables related with printers are:

FND_PRINTER

FND_PRINTER_INFORMATION

FND_PRINTER_STYLES

FND_PRINTER_DRIVERS

NOTE: If any changes on the printer setups should be bounce concurrent managers for the changes to take effect.