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Output Channels

Printing in SAP S/4HANA Output Control

You can print documents using the SAP spool system, an application server process for managing sequential data streams that
are sent to a printer.

Every time a spool request is printed, the system creates a record called an output request. The output request contains
information about the printer or output device, and stores the output parameters as well as the output status.

SAP S/4HANA output control uses the short name of the printer, for example LP01, as de ned in the Spool Administration
transaction (SPAD).

 Note
Although the SAP spool system supports multiple device classes, SAP S/4HANA output control only supports the standard
printer device class.

Device Types
When de ning output devices to be used with SAP S/4HANA output control, you can choose from the supported device types
and access methods. You can select devices types using the following page description languages (PDL):

CAB (for CAB label printers)

DPL (Datamax)

IPL (Intermec)

PCL

PDF

PostScript

TPCL (Toshiba)

ZPL (for Zebra label printers)

 Note
The listed device types can only be used when you use output forms (gateway interface) for your output. Existing form
technologies, such as SAPscript, Smart Forms, and Output Forms (DDIC interface), are limited to device type PDF1 or
PDFUC. Using another device type can lead to alignment issues for SAPscript and Smart Forms.

Previewing the document from the spool request is only possible if the device type is set to PDF1 or PDFUC. In addition, certain
features of output control, for example, attachments and speci c localization settings require device type PDF1 or PDFUC.

Access Methods
You can use the following access methods:

C: Direct operating system call

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E: External output management system

 Note

This is not a raw data interface solution. No additional les such as XFD (XML data) or CFG (meta
information) les are available.

Only the rendered document (this means one le of type PDF, PS, PCL, ZPL etc.) is put to the spool request.
Its le format is controlled by the device type of the used spool device.

L: Print locally using LP/LPR

S: Print using SAP protocol

U: Print using Berkeley protocol

 Note
The following spool features are not available:

Output attributes (for example, cover page)

Tray information

Print options and print tickets

Printer parameter (for example, Duplex)

ADS bundling is not supported by SAP S/4HANA output control.

Note that SAP S/4HANA output control offers a preview function for all forms by default. For form templates used in another
output control framework, the preview may not have been available before. In such cases, the preview function is not
guaranteed and a refresh of the transactional buffer (for example, by calling RV_INVOICE_REFRESH in Billing) will lead to an
exception causing the system to raise a dump.

For more information, see the SAP Printing Guide (BC-CCM-PRN).

Using IDoc in SAP S/4HANA Output Control

IDoc is a standard SAP format for electronic data exchange between systems. In SAP S/4HANA output control, IDoc is
supported for business partner-based communication, if speci c prerequisites are ful lled.

For example, you can use IDoc for the communication between Procurement and Sales.

Communication to logical systems such as posting billing documents to an external nancial system is handled by other
frameworks, for example, the IDoc framework for the RFC interface for external data transfer. For more information, see the
IDoc documentation on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/s4hana.

Prerequisites for using IDoc:

Only business applications that use other output management frameworks such as message control (Materials
Management), message management (Production Planning), or output control (Sales and Distribution) - also known as
NAST - in SAP Business Suite can use IDoc.

Only output types in SAP S/4HANA output control that can be mapped exactly to the output type NAST-KSCHL in other
output management frameworks can use IDoc.
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 Note
Manually created output items cannot be used for IDoc in SAP S/4HANA output control, as the partner role cannot be set
for such items.

For more information about which business scenarios support the use of IDoc, refer to the business application's Simpli cation
List item on SAP Help Portal under http://help.sap.com/s4hana, choose a release Simpli cation List .

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