How to avoid print popup in production order ?

[vimal]

A popup appears regarding printer when we click on Print button in CO02 Production order.

it's a SAP Script and while calling OPEN_FORM , we are passing dialog as SPACE but it's still appearing.

We have maintained default printer as locl in SU01 also.

Please suggest.

Thanks,

Vimal

[alexander_bolloni · Accepted solution]

Hi,

this Windows popup is triggered by SAPgui whenever you output a backend spool request to a printer which is defined as a frontend printer (like LOCL is, typically).

It has nothing to do with the SAPscript print popup, which is suppressed via the DIALOG parameter you mentioned.

It is possible to suppress this popup (which is normally used to select the desired Windows printer on your PC) in transaction SPAD by checking box "No device selection at front end" in the "access method" tab of a printer definition.
But be aware that this setting affects all users of this frontend printer in a system! It is probably not a good idea to check this box for printer LOCL, which everyone is using....

BTW, when a user has a "PDF print queue" in Windows,  like in your screenshot, this user will get a popup from Windows in any case, prompting for the directory + filename for the PDF file... 

Regards,

  Alex