Introduction
Printer Vendor Program (PVP) allows printer manufacturers to develop and provide their own device types. Manufacturers can join the PVP and get a Gold or Silver level "membership".
For example, development issues about printers can be now addressed to SAP support if the manufacturer is a Gold member.
- A wizard has been added in SPAD transaction to help creating output devices
- A new tab "Print options" has been added in output device maintenance, containing all printer model features (trays, etc.)
- A button "Special options" has been added in the Printer and options selection dialog
- The vendor may provide drivers for previously unsupported page description languages or PDLs (via an ABAP class)
Availability
Note 1097563 - Device Drivers for SAP explains when PVP becomes available:
- 6.20 SP 64 (+ required corrections), kernel SP 222
- 6.40 SP 22 (+ required corrections), kernel SP 222
- 7.0 SP 14 (+ required corrections), kernel SP 148
- 7.01, 7.11 and higher: PVP is supported since the beginning
- Note: 7.10 does not support PVP on 6/24/2010
Documentation
- SDN document: SAP Printer Vendor Program intro: explains what are gold and silver partners (so that to know whom to contact for support, SAP or vendor). It also contains wizard screen captures which indicate what has changed.
- SDN document: SAP Printer Vendor Program (abstract): a very short document of 2 pages which explain what is PVP
- Note 1036961 - Device type selection wizard in transaction SPAD: this note contains 4 files:
- tspopi-yyyymmdd.zip containing tspopi-yyyymmdd.xml (list of manufacturers, list of printer models, device types, etc.) which you upload into SAP via output device maintenance, click wizard button and upload button (see operation guide attached)
- Detailed PDF operation guide document attached
- Document with list of Printer model/device type and where you can get the device type (standard, PVP, note)
Participants
- Note 1100779 - Participants in the SAP Printer Vendor program: simple list of program participants, but references to SAP notes are only given in note 1097990
- Note 1097990 - List of Printer Vendor Wizard Notes
Manufacturer | Printer Vendor Wizard Note ( | Additional info |
---|---|---|
BiXOLON | ||
Brother | 2749209 (for label printers) | |
Cab | ||
Carl Valentin | ||
Citizen Systems | ||
Dell | ||
Honeywell (Datamax-O'Neil and Intermec is acquired) Datamax-O'Neil Intermec | | |
HP (Samsung printer business is acquired) |
| |
Konica Minolta | ||
Muratec | ||
NEC | ||
Oki/Okidata | ||
Printronix | ||
Gestetner Lanier SAVIN NRG Infotec | ||
Riso | ||
Sharp | ||
Toshiba (Tec) | ||
TSC Printronix AutoID (acquired by TSC) | ||
Videojet | ||
Xerox | ||
Zebra |
Note
The device types developed under SAP Printer Vendor program by printer manufacturers are self-tested by themselves based on SAP provided test procedures. The developed device types are NOT automatically considered as certified by SAP.
3 Comments
Unknown User (1045gxdfu)
Hi,
In June 2009, Canon was announced as a Gold level member of the Printer Vendor Program.
This has provided access to features such as stapling, booklet with
saddle-stitch (where supported by the device), barcode support and so on.
Does anyone know whether secure print is a supported feature ?
Kind regards,
Mark
Philip Cipusev
Hello Mark
Sorry for the late response.
Yes, on Canon devices ith secure print option, the secure print functionalty is avaible and usable with SAP printjobs. You can use the mailbox printing too.
Just contact me, to show you, how it works and how you can integrate it in your environment.
There are some restrictions on it, but you can use it for SAP Script based documents without restrictions.
Greetings
Philip Cipusev from Canon (Schweiz) AG
Philip Cipusev
See answer to Mark above.