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

SAP 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

• SAP 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

• SAP 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

• SAP Note 1097990 (List of Printer Vendor Wizard Notes)

Manufacturer	Printer Vendor Wizard Note ( gold level PVP member, silver level PVP member, as of 20/Feb/2019)	Additional info
BiXOLON	2666963
Brother	1135040 2749209 (for label printers)
Cab	1349463
Canon	1135052 & 2643359
Carl Valentin	1982755
Citizen Systems	2197527
Dell	1135033
Epson	1135053
Fujifilm (formerly Fuji Xerox)	1135054
Honeywell (Datamax-O'Neil and Intermec is acquired) Datamax-O'Neil Intermec	1898463 1760619
HP (Samsung printer business is acquired)	1135055  1135104	SAP Note 772999 (Private printing on HP LaserJet printers): it also explains indirectly how to start the PJL mode for HP printers and how to return to PCL HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd (earlier called as S-Printing Solution Co., Ltd. which is Samsung Printing Business unit, part of HP)
Konica Minolta	1135038
Kyocera	1135057
Lexmark	1135058
Muratec	1174860
NEC	1737315
Oki/Okidata	1258625
Printronix	1135107
Ricoh Gestetner Lanier SAVIN NRG Infotec	1135039 1266102 1266113 1266114 1266115 1266117
Riso	2997732
SATO	1135106	User Manual - SAP Device Driver for SATO Printers - Version 1.0.5
Sharp	1135036
Toshiba (Tec)	1135105
TSC Printronix AutoID (acquired by TSC)	1540910 2370835
Xerox	1447606
Zebra	1173046

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.