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Output Copies With Spool-Only Jobs

For example, spool-only jobs are generated when printing labels from SAP. The labels are generated in SAP, passed to PLOSSYS 5 by the OMS server and output to a label printer.

For output copies of the spool-only jobs, the seal-copier service has to be enabled in PLOSSYS 5. The seal-copier service determines the desired copies of the job and sends the output file to the printer as often as desired. For enabling the seal-copier service, the useCopier printer key has to be set to Y.

If you use easyPRIMA for maintaining the label printer, this is how you enable the seal-copier service for this printer:

  1. In easyPRIMA, add the useCopier queue parameter. For more information about easyPRIMA, refer to the easyPRIMA documentation.

  2. Add the language-specific clear texts for this parameter to the language files (for example, tools/seppperl/language/edc_customer/de.pm for German) so that the parameter is understandable to the user.

  3. Export the queue to PLOSSYS 5 and check if useCopier = Y is displayed with the printer parameters in PLOSSYS Administrator.

The rules how the copies are evaluated by the seal-copier service are described in Set Copies. Normally, the copies are set in SAP_OMS_S_COPIES when printing from SAP.

Caution - no copies in spoolfile!

The spoolfile must not contain copy sequences! Otherwise, the copies are output in square number. For example, the spoolfile already contains a sequence for output five copies. PLOSSYS 5 sends the spoolfile five times to the printer. In total, you get five spoolfiles and five copies of each spoolfile, i. e. 25 print-outs.

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