Smartforms in Dot Matrix

Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to make a smartform in Dot Matrix mode.?

Hi Yash,
As Rajesh said its same. As a developer you need to know about the page formart. And you can maintain new page formats using SPAD transaction. Then you need to configure that page formart with your printer then its same nothing specific with dot matrix printer or any.
If still you have any doubts revert back to me i will help you.
Regards,
Sri Hari Anand Kumar.

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Problem while printing smartform in dot matrix printer

Hi Experts,
When i am printing smartform using dot matrix printer only the last page prints but all the pages displays in print privew.
For example suppose there are three pages to be print 1/3, 2/3 , 3/3 , i get all the three pages in print privew as well as when i take its printout in laser printer i get all three pages as print, but when i am using dot matrix printer i get only the last page ie 3/3 as print.
Regards
Varun Sharma

Hai Varun,
If things are coming properly then its no more ABAP issue.
Need to check out with the BASIS team along with the IT / hardware department.
Just try to take print out on a other dotmatrix printer, if its somewhere close to you as usually they are heavy and large in size can't be moved.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Suvendu

Not able to print a standard smartform on dot matrix

Hi
The standard print program /BEV2/ED_PRINT_SF_LDS_XX and the corresponding smartform /BEV2/ED_SF_LDS are printed using a laser printer. But when I try to print it using a dot matrix printer instead. I get no preview and no printout.
Can anyone help me on this please ?

Smita, check if the paper size that is used in the Smartform is assigned to the device type of the dot matrix printer (most likely laser and dot matrix printers are not using the same device type).
It is strange though that you don't get the printout at all. Have you checked the spool queue (SP01)? If it doesn't even reach the spool then the problem is not with the printer.

Printing smartform in Dot matrix printer

Hi ,
i am giveing the printout of the smartform in the dot matrix printer. But in the print out the template is not getting printed and in the second table i am getting extra lines in the table. Please give me any suggestions and is there any settings to be changed in the printer.
Warm Regards
Phani.

There may be some isssue with the loop used to printing the table ....
There might be only 2 reasons either there is loop repeating or not data is not cleared concentrate on this two issues only .
try debugging the table jus before printing .if its is fine , then
Sometimes even the problem with the print catridge could have resulted in this .
Edited by: Martina Floriette on Jun 23, 2009 7:50 AM

Problem in Smartform Table/window Line Using Dot Matrix Printer

Dear Experts,
I faced issue in printing smartform using dot matrix printer. In the print result, the table line (horizontal and vertical) is not printed. I already search the forum but none can solve my issue. I already changed the table line width into 30 or 40 TW but still not work. Everything is OK in the print result, except the table line.
If i manually print/write '__' (underscore), it appear in the print result, but to write horizontal line and vertical line manually in the smartform will be huge effort.
I used device type EPESCP9 for the output device.
Can you tell me what i need to do?
your help will be appreciated.
Thanks

Hi,
Check your device type.
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2016838
Jshree

Horizontal Vertical and logo is not printed in dot matrix printer

Hi All
i am printing a smartform in dot matrix printer
the form has horizontal vertical line
table lines , and logo
but when i print in Dot matrix printer
the line and logo is not display
Please say me how i design for it
wheather It is printer or smartform design problem?
Regard
Riten

Hi riten,
The Printer settings is not supporting the horizontal and vertical line ..check with the basis team for the printer settings.
Regards,
Sravanthi

Text shifting Right when printing smarform in Dot matrix printer

Hi all,
I have developed a payslip in smart form. I am printing the smartform in dot matrix printer. when there is blank between 2 values like one of the deductions is blank between 2 values while printing its will shift to right indefinitely even though in the print preview it is appearing correctly. In the same way in the last line i am printing Total earnings deductions n net pay... Total earnings has to be printed approximately after 6 cms from left margin in print preview it is exactly where i wanted but when printing its printing after almost 8 - 9 cms
I have created a Z page format to fit the copying 6 inch page and added code to make necessary changes to print in continuously
Kindly help me to overcome the issue.
Any help appreciable....
Shivakumar K B
09098955022

Hi Pavan,
I am trying to display the text in the template which is of the exact size as in preprinted stationary, in paragraph format i am not using space between variables..
To be clear.................... I am getting my print preview is correctly but when i give it for printing the text is shifting right...

Sales invoice Smartform printing in dot matrix printer in sucession

Dear all,
I am trying to Print Sales invoice on Dot matrix Printer.
My First Invoice is printed ok, but if i try to print second invoice without manually adjusting the paper the alignment on printer goes haywiered.
Do we have some option in smartform where we can trigger new page command.
Regards,
Gaurav Sood

Hi Amiya,
you need to check the paperformat which is used. I'm pretty sure that there is a wrong paperformat selected. The supported paperformats are published in the official documentation of the printer-model.
~Florian

Smartform printing on Dot Matrix printer for continuous stationery

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I'm throwing my smartform print output on printer using local printer .Now the problem is as i have designed the SF using A4 page size , the output on Dot matrix is my output (WHICH IS 1/3rd OF a PAGE) + rest of empty space which is actually wasting pages.
Settings in SPAD are as follows:
Output device : Lp01
Device type : SWIN
and page format : LINE_21
Format Type : LINE_21
What i want is a restricted output .please let me know the possible solutions and do i need to load the driver for my printer in SAP as well (Printer is : wipro WEP 800 DX)
Thanks and Regards,
Sachin Soni

Hi,
Change the page settings in the form
-> under the form attributes you can find the page format there you can set up your required format
Thanks,
Nethaji.

Smartform window borders not appearing in dot matrix printer Epson FX-1170

Hi all. I have a smartform with boxes (made out of windows and its borders) and texts inside those boxes. In the print preview, it shows the window borders. However, when the actual printout comes, the window borders do not appear. I have tried to change the 'output options' of the windows - I tried using millimeters, centimeters, point, lines, as well as inches, for the unit and also tried changing the width, but it still doesn't appear. Has anyone encountered a similar problem with dot matrix printers? Please help.

Hi,
the dot-matrix printers cannot "draw" lines and pictures, so, it is not capable of drawing the vertical and horizontal lines you have defined in the smartform windows. I think that you need to write the horizontal lines using the '-' or '_' characters but I am not sure about the vertical ones. Of course, as you realize, this requires big development effort.
Regards,
George

Smartforms Printing not coming properly in dot matrix printer

Hi Gurus,
We have implemented invoice printout using smartforms and required to use the dot matrix printer for printing.
We are now facing the problem on the printout from dot matrix is different from the preview we get in the system. But the printout from Laser Jet is coming out correctly for the same smartforms.
We are using EPSON DLQ3000 and we configure the output device using EPESCP2 as the Device Type. The problem is font size of the print out is all printed as courier size 12, but there are different font sizes in the smartforms.
But when we use local printing (using SAPLPD), there is no problem, all different font size is printed.
If we using to same output device to print some sapscript, everything is working well. Font size will print accordingly to the preview of the sapscript.
Do you have any idea of the problem that we have. Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Lee Shi

Dear Lee,
Ideally the printout should come as it is shown in the preview.I remember once it had happened with me too.But in my case there is no problem with the settings at SAP level.When we checked we found the problem is with the printer cartridge.
We co-ordinated with the system administrator and n/w guys.They in turn change the cartridge and issue was fixed.
PS:In my case all SAP printout were coming properly except the smartforms.
Regards,
Ashutosh
Edited by: ashutosh singh on Aug 18, 2008 10:20 AM

Dot matrix printers Capable of printing TABLE lines In Smartforms

Hey guys,
we are using EPSON LX-300+ (dot matrix pritner)
but the problem is,
it is not able to print table lines present in a SMARTFORM..
it can print the same table lines presnet in SCRIPT ...
so i want to know,
all the dot matrix printers in the market...
that can print table lines in SMARTFORMS...
(pls suggest the DM printers u are using and dont have this problem..i.e unable to print table lines in SMARTFORMS)
thank you...

Hi Sreesudha,
I have used three different line types for the main window.
LTYPE1(Header) : For printing the column heading along with the title for consignor address.
LTYPE2(Main Area) : For printing the line items detail. For the first line, I have to print Material Description and chapter Id and if the same material exists for the second line item, then it should not be printed, so I have written condition for not printing it.
LTYPE3(Footer) : For printing the footer with the net and gross weight details.
And for paragraph format, I have used the custom Para. Format only.
Suggest me ASAP.
Rgds,
JK

Smartforms: Printer incompatibility (Laser to Dot matrix)

Dear all
I have developed one smartforms(zforms and zdriver prog) and configured that in NACE and i m printing from
VF03 for laser printer & the o/p is superb.
But my client still uses Dot matrix printer(PARTS1)
and while selecting that printer , i found somewhat disturbed o/p in Preview also and boxes dont appear at all( & few @ char is getting printed) in the printout copies .
My BASIS has done the setup in SPAD but still struggling , where i m going wrong ?
PLz help............................?
Thnx
Moni
Message was edited by: md monirujjaman

Dear Moni,
Most all of the Panasonic Dot Matrix printers support two different printer languages (IBM Proprinter and an Epson language - FX for 9 wire matrix printers, LQ for 24 wire matrix printers). The active language is configured through the setup routine of the printer itself by pressing certain buttons.
I installed the KX-P1150 driver on my Windows XP PC and then printed a web page through it because I knew this would force the print driver to enter graphics mode. I found that this driver was sending Epson based printer control commands. If it happened that the KX-P1150, which received this information, was set to its IBM Proprinter III emulation, most graphic based commands would not be understood.
In your case, the @ being printed instead of the graphically generated box draw characters suggests that you might have a printer language mismatch between the Windows driver receiving the SAP Smartforms input and the language currently selected within the target printer itself.
I would suggest as a first step verifying that the printer is in its Epson emulation and then trying a print test again. If you still have trouble, I would agree with the other poster who mentioned you should then look into re-checking the SPAD configuration.
HTH
Best Regards,
/Paul

Smartforms dot matrix printer issue?

Dear Experts,
I have developed smart form, it is going to be printed in DOT MATRIX printer, when i am trying to print in dot matrix printer it is not showing any horizontal and vertical lines , remaining data is printed perfectly. how do i resolve this issue( horizontal and vertical lines) . in print preview it is showing all lines .
please help me on this issue. i will appreciate for your valuable replies.
Thanks
Ravilla

Hello,
There are some general known limitations with Dot Matrix printers.
For example, the BOX command is not supported with Dot Matrix/Line
printers when you use the dedicated device type. eg: device type EPESCP2
There are several other limitations to the device types that use the
STN2 driver(Line Printer driver II ) as described in the SAP Note:
19807 - SAPscript print problems with standard driver STN2
These problems with Dot Matrix printers can be overcome by using device
type SAPWIN with the Dot Matrix printers connected to a Windows system.
SAPWIN is also a page-oriented device type, which supports the BOX
command.
By using SAPWIN device type, you can use access method G (SAP note 821519)
or S (note SAP 894444).
Regards,
David

Problem with chinese character for dot matrix epson LQ-1600K III

Hi All,
I really runs out of idea about my problem now. The problem is about Print Chinese character to dot matrix printer (Epson LQ-1600K III). I tried to so many device type to solve this issue, looks like the only device type can be use are CNSAPWIN and CNEPSON with CNSONG font type. The others if I print to the printer, the chinese character became # (although in the print preview it`s okay and display correctly).
Here is the bottleneck if I use CNEPSON:
- if I have 2 window at the left and right position, if the left window has chinese character, the right window automatically shift right about 1.5 CM, which is damn weird!!! Can somebody help me
- I tried so many ways to adjust the line size for my detail window (to cater positioning at pre-printed boxes), but looks the font size always become 10pt and line size cannot be adjustable (based on smartstyle).BUT if I used device type epescp2, it can be done!
Here is the bottleneck if I use CNSAPWIN:
- I need to create format type in windows and SAP (SPAD). and every PC that use this printer, must define the Paper size ( China Special paper size 12inch)
- I also think this is not a good idea because as I far as I know this is not the correct way..
Therefore, if somebody has experience about printer chinese character to dot matrix for Smartform and sapscript..please kindly help me give some advice.
Do I use the wrong device type?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Willy

Hi friends , we are using the same model ....
Are you using the chinese version operation system ? because we can print the chinese charaters without problem in LQ 1600KIII .....
We are using CNSAPWIN device type + Frondend printing access method ....
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