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Printers
Printers and Printing
Oracle E-Business Suite offers two printing solutions to handle all your printing
requirements. For most printing needs, the Pasta Utility offers quick setup and easy
maintenance. For additional flexibility, Oracle E-Business Suite allows you to define
your own printer drivers and print styles.
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To set up your printers using Pasta, see Printer Setup with Pasta, page 9-10.
Note: Pasta is required to print using UTF8.
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To set up your printers using a custom solution, see Customizing Printing Support
in Oracle E-Business Suite, page 9-31.
Overview
When you run an Oracle E-Business Suite report, Oracle Reports generates and formats
the output. A completed report is sent to the operating system by the concurrent
manager, which issues an operating system print command, or calls a custom print
program or subroutine that issues an operating system print command.
Oracle Reports and Report Generation
Oracle Reports includes page break, carriage return, line feed, text bold on/off, and text
underline on/off instructions within the output file. The values are retrieved from a
SQL*ReportWriter (SRW) driver file.
When the report is generated for online viewing, Oracle Reports uses the SRW driver
named by the print style in the Print Styles form.
When the report is to be printed, Oracle Reports uses the SRW driver named by the
Oracle E-Business Suite printer driver in the Printer Drivers form.
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