Install the printer in the OS§
Navigation and forms that are used-(Login as system administrator)§
The following steps to setup printer(s) should be performed in the following
order:
1. Printer types > Navigate – Install – Printer – Types
This window you must define a printer type for your new printer. You may provide any name you choose.
An example would be if you had a line printer, you may name it “LINE” or “LN03″ for the model number of the printer. This name will be associated to the actual printer name when you register the printer to Oracle Applications.
2. Printer > Navigate -Install – Printer – Register
You must have defined a printer type before you can register a new printer. The value for printer name will be the operating system printer name. Then choose the printer type that you defined in the previous step.
3. Printer types > Navigate – Install – Printer – Types
You will need to come to this form again to associate the below printer styles to the printer type that you defined above.
4. Print Styles > Navigate – Install – Printer – Style
If you are defining new styles specifically for your printer, you would do this here. Please review manual for the specific parameters needed to be defined. Oracle Applications reports are designed to work with standard shipped styles:
Portrait
Landscape
Landwide
A4
Dynamic Portrait
You may point to the seeded styles that we have, but if you have customized reports you may have to create a new printer style to accommodate the custom report(s).
5. Printer Driver > Navigate – Install – Printer – Driver
Oracle does provide the printer drivers for the above Styles, so unless you are adding your own, it should not be required to define one right now. If you are defining your own, you must specify a unique printer driver name and an unique user name for a given platform.
6. Lastly, if any new updates or changes have been made to any of the printer definitions, you must bounce the concurrent manager to ensure that all changes do take effect.
Change the profile option GSM enabled to N (from Y)§
To change this the following steps need to be done:
- Switch responsibility from sys admin to application developer
- Application Profile- (F11)- %GSM%- (ctrl F11)
- Validate both visible and updateable under user access
- Save the changes
- Again switch responsibility from application manager to sys admin
- Profile – system- %GSM%-N
By Chandra Shekara
