Defining a New Print Driver

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Recall that the print driver defines how Oracle E-Business Suite applications printing will be accomplished and what print programs, commands, and arguments need to be provided to submit an output file to the OS's print queue.

To define a printer driver to Oracle Applications, you will need to perform the following steps:

1. Log on to Oracle Applications as a user with system administration authority and select the SYSADMIN responsibility.

2. Navigate to Install/Printers/Drivers and create a new print driver record in the database tables.

3. Enter a new printer driver name and a user driver name (the user driver is the name that will appear in the List of Values (LOV) in the window where you select the desired printer for the concurrent request job).

4. If you are dealing with a UNIX platform only, select a PostScript SRW driver like PSL132 for landscape printing.

5. Platform should always be left blank (meaning that there will be a <null> associated with the platform in the database record).

6. Set the new driver's method to command and all of the other driver method parameters options should remain blank or unchecked.

7. Enter a corresponding OS print command argument. The format that this argument takes depends on whether you are dealing with Windows or UNIX:

Windows

 PRINT/D:$PROFILES$.PRINTER $PROFILES$.FILENAME 

UNIX

 lp -c -d$PROFILES$.PRINTER -n$PROFILES$.CONC_COPIES -t  "$PROFILES$.TITLE" $PROFILES$.FILENAME 

Make sure that you leave the initialization and reset fields blank or <null> if the new driver will be used for PostScript printing.

A special note for Concurrent Managers: Because printer information is cached, the internal manager needs to be stopped and restarted every time you make a printer change for the change to take effect.

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