Zebra SAP Smart Forms and Zeberea Print Instrukcja Użytkownika Pobierz pdf (Strona 4)

A Zebra Technologies White Paper

Direct Printing from

SAP (SAP Smart Forms

and Interactive Forms)

SAP built native bar code printing support

into its software by adding bar code rendering

functionality and including drivers for Zebra printers.

Bar code rendering and printing support can be

applied from 4.6c onwards via SAP Support Packs

available directly from SAP. Bar code labels and forms

for output from SAP applications are created in the

familiar Smart Forms environment. If the destination

printer can recognise ZPL, PostScript, or PCL output,

it can print bar codes with no additional programming

required. This is also true of Interactive Forms, SAP’s

next generation form design tool available through

SAP NetWeaver (available in Web Application Server v

6.40). Interactive Forms includes the easy-to-use Adobe

Form Designer, and is seamlessly integrated with ABAP

Workbench and SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.

Interactive Forms also supports ZPL and bar

code design.

Simplicity is the biggest advantage of printing bar

codes directly from SAP. It makes the process of

printing bar codes from the SAP environment as easy

as printing a Word document on a PC. There are no

additional software licenses, servers, or PCs to buy and

support. The approach is very economical, because

SAP customers can take advantage of their existing

Smart Forms license to satisfy their label and form

printing needs. Support of the ZPL bar code printer

command language provides users with an easy way

to migrate their label production from laser printers

to thermal printers, which are much more efﬁcient to

operate and offer many additional features.

There are limitations to direct bar code output

from SAP. Users need a PostScript, PCL, or ZPL printer.

PostScript and PCL laser printers are built

to print documents and are poorly suited for enterprise

bar code label printing. They frequently lack the bar

code print quality, speed, media options, and reliability

required for daily label production, and often make

inefﬁcient use of toner and label material. Zebra’s

ZPL thermal printers are available in numerous sizes,

enclosures, and conﬁgurations, including compact

desktop units; rugged, metal-encased industrial models;

and mobile printers

that can be worn on a belt or carried by hand. A variety

of interfaces are also available for

ZPL printers, including Ethernet, 802.11b-standard

wireless, USB, and more. Other thermal printer makers

may develop ZPL emulation, but these devices will not

be able to provide all the compatibility, features, and

performance available in true ZPL devices.

Please refer to SAP OSS Notes 430887, 750002, and

750772, available on the www.service.sap.com Web

site, for more information about SAP Smart Forms bar

code support. Also see Zebra’s white paper “Using

SAP

Smart Forms for Bar Code Label Printing from

mySAP™ Business Suite” or Zebra’s SAP Smart Forms

technical documentation on Zebra’s Smart Forms Web

page, which you can reach via links from www.zebra.

com/smartforms.

Upload Method (SAPscript)

SAP users have made the upload method the

most popular way to generate bar code labels from

their applications. Bar code labels are designed using

a third-party label design software application. Then,

through SAPscript, the bar code design ﬁle is uploaded

into the SAP form. Bar codes can then be printed

directly from SAP without additional processing.

The simplicity of direct printing is the biggest attraction

to the upload method. Printing systems are easy to

administer, because after the one-time uploading into

the SAPscript form is completed, there is print server

hardware to maintain. Direct printing also enables fast

label output, which is important for many distribution,

warehousing, and production operations.

The upload method may require ABAP programming

upfront to make output convenient. Each label format

will require manual modiﬁcations being made to the

printer control language ﬁle. These modiﬁcations

are required to embed the SAP variables names and

SAPscript logic, which adds time and expense. Binary

ﬁles cannot be uploaded, which prevents the use of

Asian characters, restricts graphics capabilities, and

on some printers prevents the use of TrueType™ fonts.

The upload method also places some limitations on

text wrapping, justiﬁcations and variable ﬁeld scaling.

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