Chapter 17: Printing with SAS
Introduction to Universal Printing
What Is Universal Printing?
Universal Printing is a printing system that provides both interactive and batch printing capabilities to SAS applications and procedures on all the operating environments that are supported by SAS.
When Universal Printing is ON, SAS routes all printing through Universal Printing services. All Universal Printing features are controlled by system options, thereby enabling you to control many print features even in batch mode.
| Note | Prior to the introduction of Universal Printing, SAS supported a utility for print jobs known as Forms. Forms printing is still available if you select |
Turning Universal Printing On and Off
Universal Printing is available on all operating environments that SAS supports. By default, Universal Printing is turned ON on all operating environments except Windows .
The UNIVERSALPRINT system option (alias UPRINT) must be set for Universal Printing to be ON and used by SAS. This option can be set only in the SAS configuration file or at startup. You cannot turn Universal Printing menus on or off after startup.
| Note | When you use the PRINTERPATH option to specify a printer, the print job is controlled by Universal Printing. |
Operating Environment Information: In the Windows operating environment, you must set an additional system option, UPRINTMENUSWITCH, in order to access the Universal Printing user interface. You must also set UPRINTMENUSWITCH, in order to configure all menus in SAS to use the Universal Printing windows. To do this, include
-uprint -uprintmenuswitch
in the string that you use to invoke SAS under Windows.
What Type of Print Output Formats Are Available from Universal Printing?
In addition to sending print jobs to a printer, you can also direct output to external files that are widely recognized by different types of printers and print viewing software programs. You can use Universal Printing to produce the following commonly recognized file types:
| Type | Full Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PCL | Printer Control Language | Developed by Hewlett-Packard as a language that applications use to control a wide range of printer features across a number of printing devices. Universal Printing currently supports PCL5, PCL5e and PCL5c levels of the language. |
| | Portable Document Format | A file format developed by Adobe Systems for viewing and printing a formatted document. To view a file in PDF format, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application distributed by Adobe Systems. |
| Optimized PDF | Optimized Portable Document Format | A compressed PDF file format developed by Adobe Systems. |
| PS | Postscript | A page description language also developed by Adobe Systems. PostScript is primarily a language for printing documents on laser printers, but it can be adapted to produce images on other types of devices. |
Universal Printing and ODS
The ODS PRINTER destination uses Universal Printing whether the UNIVERSALPRINT option is on or off. The PRINTER destinations used by the ODS PRINTER statement are described in The Complete Guide to the SAS Output Delivery System .
The Output Delivery System (ODS) uses Universal Printing for the following ODS statements:
| ODS PRINTER Destination | Description |
|---|---|
| PRINTER= option | uses the selected printer |
| ODS PDF statement | uses Universal Printing's PDF printer |
| ODS PS statement | uses Universal Printing's Postscript Level 1 printer |
| ODS PCL statement | uses Universal Printing's PCL5 printer |
Operating Environment Information: In the Windows operating environment, the ODS PRINTER destination will use the Windows system printers unless SAS was started with the UNIVERSALPRINT option, or when you specify a printer with the PRINTERPATH option. If Universal Printing is enabled in Windows, SAS will override the use of the Windows system printer and cause ODS to use Universal Printing.
For more information on ODS, see The Complete Guide to the SAS Output Delivery System .
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