SAP Printing ABAP Report over LAN and WAN

Printing ABAP Report over LAN and WAN

For the LAN setup for local printer you can defined it as device LOCL

Device type: SAPWIN
Host printer: __DEFAULT
Host spool access method: F (Printing on front end computer)

This printer will works fine on your LAN.

For the WAN, assuming that you have 2 office connected over the internet and they work fine with the printer LOCL.

Now, you need to have a Print Server where you have installed many of the printer, some of them over WAN and they will work fine if you do this :-

The server must have SAPLPD installed.

Output device: LPFP
Device type: SAPWIN
Destination host: sapdev
Host printer: HP_HP1 (printer name on the Printer Server)
Host spool access method: S (Print on LPDHOST via SAP protocol)