SAP Spool Printing

I am attempting to print my Quarterly tax reports. When SAP is asked to batch print multiple documents, it gives me one Windows Print dialog per document rather than one dialog for the entire batch. This is causing the documents to print backwards because each dialog generated covers up the one before it.
Once I generate the reports this is my process,,,,
I use T-code Sp01 to get my listing. I place a checkmark to select the PDFs( say 200 of them) then there is a print box that displays and flashes. I have to keep clicking ok so the reports will print.
Is there a more efficient, cleaner way to print these reports? We are on ECC6 and we implemented EHP4 this past October.
Thanks,

Hello,
If you want to print all the spool request in one time, your should try:
1) Go to PU19
2) System -> Own Spool Request
3) Find the request, mark the request.
4) Spool Request -> Print -> Direct Processing.
Best Regards,
Jaime

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    1. 1 Concepts
    1.1. 1.1 Modifying SAP Forms
    1.2. 1.2 Forms: Concepts
    1.3. 1.3 Client and Language Versioning: Concepts
    2. 2 Componentes
    2.1. 2.1 Header Data
    2.2. 2.2 Paragraph Formats and Attributes
    2.2.1. 2.2.1 Standard Paragraph Attributes
    2.2.2. 2.2.2 Font Attributes for Paragraphs
    2.2.3. 2.2.3 Tabs in Paragraph Formats
    2.2.4. 2.2.4 Paragraph and Heading Numbering
    2.3. 2.3 Character Formats and Attributes
    2.3.1. 2.3.1 Standard Attributes for Character Formats
    2.3.2. 2.3.2 Font Attributes for Character Formats
    2.4. 2.4 Windows
    2.4.1. 2.4.1 Default Paragraph
    2.5. 2.5 Pages
    2.5.1. 2.5.1 Defining Follow-On Pages in Duplex Print Modes
    2.5.2. 2.5.2 Testing Tray Selection and Print Mode Selection
    2.6. 2.6 Page Windows
    2.7. 2.7 Text Elements
    2.7.1. 2.7.1 Default Text Element
    2.8. 2.8 Main Window
    3. 3 Técnicas
    3.1. 3.1 Displaying Versions of Forms
    3.2. 3.2 Including Graphics
    3.2.1. 3.2.1 Using Boxes, Lines, and Shading
    3.2.2. 3.2.2 Supported Printers
    3.2.3. 3.2.3 Boxes, Lines, Shading: BOX, POSITION, SIZE
    3.2.3.1. 3.2.3.1 BOX Command
    3.2.3.2. 3.2.3.2 POSITION Command
    3.2.3.3. 3.2.3.3 SIZE Command
    3.2.4. 3.2.4 Pre-Setting BOX Position Arguments
    3.2.5. 3.2.5 Using the Commands in Texts and Forms
    3.2.6. 3.2.6 Tips and Guidelines
    4. 4 Design Tools
    4.1. 4.1 Form Components
    4.2. 4.2 Processing in Overview
    4.2.1. 4.2.1 Defining Header Data
    4.2.1.1. 4.2.1.1 Completing the Header Data After Defining the Attributes
    4.2.1.2. 4.2.1.2 Passing Data to an External Program
    4.2.2. 4.2.2 Defining Paragraph Formats
    4.2.3. 4.2.3 Defining Character Formats
    4.2.4. 4.2.4 Defining Pages
    4.2.5. 4.2.5 Defining Windows
    4.2.6. 4.2.6 Using Text Elements in Page Windows
    4.2.7. 4.2.7 Defining Page Windows
    4.2.7.1. 4.2.7.1 Filling Page Windows with Text
    4.2.8. 4.2.8 Using Text Elements in Page Windows
    4.2.9. 4.2.9 Defining Main Windows in Page Windows
    4.3. 4.3 Test-Printing a Form
    5. 5 Releasing Forms
    6. 6 SAPscript Control Commands
    6.1. 6.1 Syntax of Control Commands
    6.2. 6.2 Explicit Page Break: NEW-PAGE
    6.3. 6.3 Preventing Page Breaks: PROTECT
    6.4. 6.4 Next Main Window: NEW-WINDOW
    6.5. 6.5 Assigning a Value to a Text Symbol: DEFINE
    6.6. 6.6 Formatting Date Fields: SET DATE MASK
    6.7. 6.7 Formatting Time Fields: SET TIME MASK
    6.8. 6.8 Country-Dependent Formatting: SET COUNTRY
    6.9. 6.9 Position of the Leading Sign: SET SIGN
    6.10. 6.10 Initializing Numbered Paragraphs: RESET
    6.11. 6.11 Including Other Texts: INCLUDE
    6.12. 6.12 Changing the Style: STYLE
    6.13. 6.13 Formatting Addresses: ADDRESS
    6.13.1. 6.13.1 Parameters
    6.14. 6.14 Setting a Footer Text in the Main Window: BOTTOM
    6.15. 6.15 Conditional Text: IF
    6.16. 6.16 Finding a Match: CASE
    6.17. 6.17 Calling ABAP Subroutines: PERFORM
    6.18. 6.18 Inserting Print Controls: PRINT-CONTROL
    6.19. 6.19 Boxes, Lines, Shading: BOX, POSITION, SIZE
    6.20. 6.20 Hexadecimal Data: HEX, ENDHEX
    6.21. 6.21 Summing a Program Symbol: SUMMING
    6.21.1. 6.21.1 Summing and Carrying Forward is Incorrect
    7. 7 SAPscript Symbols
    7.1. 7.1 Syntax of Symbols
    7.2. 7.2 System Symbols
    7.2.1. 7.2.1 Current Date
    7.2.2. 7.2.2 Current Day Number
    7.2.3. 7.2.3 Current Month Number
    7.2.4. 7.2.4 Current Year Number
    7.2.5. 7.2.5 Current Day Name (Long Form)
    7.2.6. 7.2.6 Current Month Name (Long Form)
    7.2.7. 7.2.7 Current Time
    7.2.8. 7.2.8 Hours Component of Current Time
    7.2.9. 7.2.9 Minutes Component of Current Time
    7.2.10. 7.2.10 Seconds Component of Current Time
    7.2.11. 7.2.11 Current Page Number
    7.2.12. 7.2.12 Page Number of the Next Page
    7.2.13. 7.2.13 Selected Device Type
    7.2.14. 7.2.14 Spaces
    7.2.15. 7.2.15 Underline
    7.2.16. 7.2.16 Vertical Line
    7.3. 7.3 Program Symbols
    7.3.1. 7.3.1 SYST: System Fields in the ABAP Programming Environment
    7.3.2. 7.3.2 USR03: User Address Data
    7.3.3. 7.3.3 SAPSCRIPT: General SAPscript Fields
    7.4. 7.4 Standard Symbols
    7.5. 7.5 Text Symbols
    7.6. 7.6 Formatting Options
    7.6.1. 7.6.1 Offset
    7.6.2. 7.6.2 Output Length
    7.6.3. 7.6.3 Omitting the Leading Sign
    7.6.4. 7.6.4 Leading Sign to the Left
    7.6.5. 7.6.5 Leading Sign to the Right
    7.6.6. 7.6.6 Omitting Leading Zeros
    7.6.7. 7.6.7 Space Compression
    7.6.8. 7.6.8 Number of Decimal Places
    7.6.9. 7.6.9 Omitting the Separator for ‘Thousands’
    7.6.10. 7.6.10 Specifying an Exponent for Floating Point Numbers
    7.6.11. 7.6.11 Right-Justified Output
    7.6.12. 7.6.12 Fill Characters
    7.6.13. 7.6.13 Suppressing Output of Initial Values
    7.6.14. 7.6.14 Ignoring Conversion Routines
    7.6.15. 7.6.15 Changing the Value of a Counter
    7.6.16. 7.6.16 Preceding and Subsequent Texts (Pre-Text / Post-Text)
    7.7. 7.7 Country-Dependent Formatting
    7.7.1. 7.7.1 Date Mask
    7.7.2. 7.7.2 Time Mask
    7.8. 7.8 Formatting Conventions
    7.8.1. 7.8.1 Primary Formatting of System Symbols
    7.8.2. 7.8.2 Primary Formatting of Standard Symbols
    7.8.3. 7.8.3 Primary Formatting of Program Symbols
    7.8.4. 7.8.4 Primary Formatting of Text Symbols
    7.8.5. 7.8.5 End Formatting
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    1.1 Modifying SAP Forms Edit section
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    1. Make sure that no SAP-standard forms are stored as client-specific copies in your development client. Such forms should be held only in client 000, the SAP development and installation client. If you access an SAP-standard form from another client, then the central copy in client 000 is used.
    If you need to remove SAP-standard objects from your development client, see Notes 10388 and 3355 in the SAP Online Service System (OSS). These notes explain the procedure for saving modified forms and then deleting all forms.
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    Rename the forms using a name from the customer name reserve (names starting with Y or Z).
    Copy the forms to one of your own Y or Z development classes.
    Renaming the SAP standard object makes it possible to manage and transport your changes with the SAP workbench organizer. The organizer is not activated for SAP-standard objects that are modified in clients other than 000.
    3. To put your modifications into effect, you must also modify the ABAP print program used to print documents that use this form. You should rename such print programs and store them in your own Y or Z development classes.
    You can use the SAP Customizing System to replace the SAP print program with your modified print program in the affected applications
    1.2 Forms: Concepts Edit section
    Forms are used to control the page layout and also the text formatting in your documents. Before formatting a document for output to the screen or to a printer, you must assign a form to it. If you do not specify a form for a document, then the SYSTEM form is assigned to the document by default.
    Application-specific forms are used in SAP applications to specify the page layout for such special documents as invoice or checks. These forms specify the structure of the information on the page(s) of such a document. They define, for example, the address header, item lines, the footer, and so on. There are two ways to format texts with forms:
    In the standard SAPscript text processing (Tools &#61614; Word processing &#61614; Standard text), you can select a form for a document. You can then type text into the main window of the form and output the document in the format defined in the form.
    For example, you can select a form for a letter. You can then type the body text of the letter in the main window. When you print the letter, the default text elements in the other windows of the form (heading, footer, and so on) are printed with the body text.
    A document can be generated by a print program in one of the SAP applications. The print program uses a form to generate the document. Most correspondence and document generation in the SAP System are handled by way of print programs.
    A print program selects the text elements that are to be printed in the windows of a form. It may also collect information from the user or ask the user to input text directly, as in some correspondence functions. The print program may also provide data for variables defined in the form.
    Finally, the print program uses the form to format the document for display or printing.
    1.3 Client and Language Versioning: Concepts Edit section
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    Forms and styles are also language-specific. That is, the definitions and texts in a form or style are defined for a particular language. Forms and styles can be translated using the standard SAP translation tools.
    Client 000 Defaulting: SAPscript accords forms and styles in client 000 a special status.
    If a form or style that is used in a document is not available in the client in which the document is being printed, then SAPscript checks for the form or style in client 000. If it is found there, then the client 000 version is used to print the document.
    SAP standard forms and styles are always held in client 000. You can take advantage of the client 000 defaulting as well by storing your Yxxx and Zxxx forms and styles there. That way, if a local version of a form or style is not present in a client, the client 000 version is used instead.
    Language rules: SAPscript uses the following rules to manage versions of forms and styles in different languages:
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    In versions other than the original language version, changes to a form or style are limited only to translation of texts. No changes to definitions and attributes are permitted.
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