Printing Purchase Orders in SRM (spool issues, etc.)

Hi SRM Gurus,
Could anyone tell me exactly how the printing of PO's works in SRM? What is the step by step description from PO approval to getting the prinout?
From my understanding, as long as you've configured everything stated from SAP Note 564826 (assign printer LOCL to pgrp, schdule background job RSPPFPROCESS, etc) when you go to transaction "Issue Purchase Orders" and click on the print button...the output will be processed by the background job that we scheduled.
The problem is that, in the spool request, there are two (2) spool numbers created which I don't understand. One is described as OTF_SPOOL and has the title COMP LOCL SAPMSSY1. This always has the status "Completed" and highlighted as green.
The other is an unprocessed spool request described as SCRIPT LOCL SAPMSSY1 I dont know what the difference of these two are, but either way...there was no actual printout.
Is there something I need to know about the background job? It seems the answer is there...
Regards,
Marvin

Access method U (berkeley protocol) would require a printer server which we do not want.
We defined a new device, LOCM that has the procedure M (email to receiver/owner). Ideally, this would send an email with a PDF copy of the purchase order. However, in the spool request the receiver is ALWAYS defined as WF-BATCH. Even if the PO creator is a different user ID, the receiver would be user WF-BATCH still.
Does anyone have an idea how to remove the receiver part in the spool request attributes? Or simply replace that with the owner of the spool?

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I'm having some issues with printing purchase orders.
Normally when I create a purchase order via ME21N and then when I save the purchase order it then gets automatically printed.
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Instead of checking your Purchase Order History one at a time, you can now mass display or print them with this customized abap report.
Mass display or print Purchase Order History
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2. User Name
3. Purchase Order Number
4. Vendor Code
Written by : SAP Basis, ABAP Programming and Other IMG Stuff
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