If you enabled the Request Print Dialog option from the SYSPRO Desktop (SYSPRO Ribbon bar->Setup), then you can use the Print Dialog Box (non-Windows) program to select a different printer to use before printing your document(s).

If you selected the option: Confirm Deletions, then you are prompted to confirm the deletion of the selected printer.

Indicate the name of the printer to add or maintain.

Select this to copy a printer from a pre-defined library supplied with SYSPRO. This library is in the form of a text file and comprises a list of commonly used printers. The file is named: IMPPRT.IMP and resides in your SYSPRO Program directory.

Using the printer library enables you to assign a printer for immediate use by SYSPRO operators as default options and attributes are already defined for the printer.

Save the information entered or changed.

Select this if you want SYSPRO to output all reports to a disk file. This enables you to store the print file for printing at a later stage.

Indicate the name of default disk file that must be created.

You can override this just prior to creating the disk file by selecting the Ask file name at report time option.

In a Client/Server environment, the disk file can be stored on either the client or the server.

Select this if you want SYSPRO to output all reports to a specific printer device.

Indicate the print device.

On a Windows platform, the device could be PRN, defaulting to the first parallel port. Most networks provide a method of capturing the output sent to a device and can redirect this to a particular printer or print queue.

However, they usually require a timeout to be defined. The timeout indicates that if any information is not sent to the port after the timeout has elapsed then the report will be treated as if it has completed. For long reports with only occasional printing, this can cause the spooler to determine that two or more reports have been printed.

On a Unix Client/Server platform, the default device is /dev/lp, but can be changed to be any parallel printer.

Usually, this will not work for serial printers as they require stty settings to define the baud rate, stop bits, parity etc. This type of printer is rarely used under Unix because two or more users cannot print to the same printer at the same time.

Select this if you want SYSPRO to create a unique temporary file. Upon completion, the report issues an operating system command to print the temporary file.

You use this type of printer when printing under Networks where a potential problem with timeouts exists. Timeout problems are avoided by sending the entire report only after it has been generated.

A default command is inserted at the Operating System command to print file field. Some operating system commands that are used to print files will copy the file to another area (spooled) before they are printed, while others simply print the original file. In instances where the original file is printed directly, it is important that SYSPRO does not delete the file while it is being printed.

Indicate the operating system command that must be issued to print the file.

On a Unix Client/Server platform, the suggested command (lp) to print the temporary file is:

lp -s -c %1

where:

%1 indicates the unique temporary file name. -s indicates that the lp command must not display a message -c indicates that the lp command must copy the file to its spooled area. In this case, you must select the Delete temporary file after printing option.

Select this if the report program must send its output directly to a spooler's standard input.

SYSPRO reports do not create a temporary file; the spooler creates a spooled file which is printed only once the report has completed.

To enable this style of printing, SYSPRO maintains a cobcap file in the standard NetExpress run-time system directory. This file determines that when a file is opened, the output from the NetExpress report must be sent to the standard input of an operating system command (usually a spooler such as lp).

Indicate the cobcab command line that must be issued to print the file.

The format of the command is similar to the actual command that you would enter at the Unix command line, except that colons (:) must be used to separate parameters. For example: If the command required was:

/usr/bin/lp -s -dprinter1

then the cobcap command line would be:

/usr/bin/lp:-s:-dprinter1:

The standard COBOL run-time system directory is assumed to be /usr/lib/cobol. If the system variable COBDIR is defined, then SYSPRO uses the directory defined by this variable to locate and store the cobcap file. After changing any entries for the cobcap file you must exit SYSPRO, because entries in the cobcap file are read once only into memory when SYSPRO is first loaded.

Specify the name of the file (including the full path) that must be created at the time of printing a report using a printer configured as a Disk file printer type. In effect, this allows you to override the default report file name just before the disk file is to be created by the report program.

Select this to delete the temporary file once printing is complete for printers configured as a Spooler (temporary file) printer type.

Configure the paper size and margins on which information will be printed.

Assign escape sequences to an attribute that enables you to change the appearance of text in reports printed by SYSPRO.

Select this to perform a form feed before printing each standard SYSPRO report.

Select this to perform a form feed at the end of printing each SYSPRO report.

Select this to perform a form feed between each document when printing multiple pre-printed stationery documents within SYSPRO.

Select this to perform a form feed at the end of each pre-printed stationery document printed within SYSPRO.

Select this to enable printing to occur at the client workstation. This is particularly useful in a wide area networking scenario where the physical distance between the client and server workstations makes printing to the server impractical.

Select this to enable printing to the server.

	you can only select this option when your printer is defined as a Unix spooler printer type.