Printing barcodes in SAP has improved with every release. With the necessary barcode know-how using the SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe you can now meet almost all barcode printing requirements with SAP standard. We support you, among others, in the following situations:

Further information: Strichcodefibel von Datalogic, Printing labels in SAP, RBARC from SuchyMIPS

As before, printing on thermal transfer printers is a particular challenge in SAP. This is due to a lack of a generally binding technical standard for printer manufacturers. Here we are prepared for the following situations:

First choice in the SAP environment:  Thermotransferdrucker von Zebra Technologies

Further information: Etikettendruck in SAP

A complex printing scenario can look like this. A customer orders an article in the online shop. The customer order in SAP is created via an interface and the printout of an order confirmation is triggered. The order confirmation is generated according to the following logic:

Such complex printing scenarios are the high school of form development. The following topics are touched:

• Show or hide the logo (by paper type)
• Control of different output media
• Output from several printer trayss (with and without logo paper)
• Archiving
• Place a form as a file
• Output control
• Control of copies
• Printer control

Further information: Consulting

For certain production processes, the common printing of the forms for the production order and linked documents is necessary. Documents can be:

• Technical drawings,
• Graphics,
• Certificates or
• other accompanying documents.

They are available as files in the DVS or its linked content management system, in the services for the object, the Business Document Service (BDS), the ArchiveLink or the SAP graphics database.

Depending on the requirements, the printing scenario can be mapped completely using the tools of SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, or an external software for converting certain file formats can be interposed.

We offer you slim solutions which are individually tailored to your needs. With the following parameters:

• Determine all linked documents according to given logic
• Stamping the documents, e.g. with the production order number
• Printing all papers into a common spool job
• Pay attention to the output order
• Output as PDF file

Further information: Printing of product based components

On various external forms, e.g. offers and order confirmations, the printing of graphics, which are linked to an application object in the DVS, is desired. The graphics can be photographs that are intended to visualize a material in an order location for the customer.

External conversion programs are required for other formats.

Recommendation for a conversion program:  s.a.x. MasterLayout®
Modul XDC 

Further informatio: DVS Graphics Plugin 

After the collection of invoices, a post street often takes the printed documents and passes them to an envelope and franking machine. In order for the envelope machine to correctly assign the invoices, an optical mark recognition (OMR) mark is printed on the form edge. The correct port is usually determined by a small barcode in the address window.

First choice in the SAP environment: RBARC / OMR for SAP systems from Suchy MIPS

Depending on the used form tool, a paper tray on the printer is controlled differently. With SAP Script or Smart Forms you can enter the tray directly in the form, with Adobe Forms you have to make changes to the XDC files on the ADS server. Since, in the case of a heterogeneous printer landscape, the tray control can become very complex, a printing strategy must be worked out together with the network administrator, which defines conventions for future extensions. Above all, it is important to prevent the program or form from making fixed queries to a printer. You can do this on the following points.

Most tasks in the printing process can be mastered using the SAP standard. For this, it is necessary for the form developer to know exactly the printing process and the corresponding organizational units of the application object. Organizational units can be:

With these criteria, many variations can be mapped with condition technology via access sequences. In exceptional cases, you can create a customizing table in which the printing process is controlled.

In the SAP standard, the email output of a form is usually done as follows:

• Send to multiple email recipients
• Free design of the email subject line
• Email cover letter for each form and company code
• Attach additional files / attachments to the email
• Popup to manually change all e-mail functions before output

We also include the following constellations:

• Attach linked files from document management, content servers, or generic object services
• Sending the email as HTML mail

Further information: Email-Plugin, Sending forms via Telefax und Email

Output management systems (OMS) are used to represent complex printing scenarios or the processing of large print volumes at a given time. In this constellation, interfaces to SAP provide the external OMS with data. The OMS can be linked to SAP ERP directly or via SAP PI. The following challenges are to be mastered:

We can tell you in which situations using an output management system is useful and when you should leave your fingers off.

Further information: Output-Management-Systeme from Neopost, Consulting