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System Printer Control

This option is used to set up any system printers that may be required. Certain functions on the system will automatically direct prints to printers that can be defined here. For example, when a Picklist is created it can be automatically printed in the warehouse area for the Stores personnel.

The printer paths must be selected from the relevant operating system (i.e. the user cannot select a NT path from a 95 machine and visa versa).

Go to System Administration/Update/System Printer Control. Select the New button.

The General Tab contains the following fields:

The following information/options are available in this window:
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Report Window drop down

Select from the choice of prints available:

• Barcode Label
• Barcode Receipt Label
• Bin Label Print
• Bin Single Label
• Commercial Invoice
• Defect-Defer-Closed
• EX Receive Survey
• Form One/8130
• LO Receive Survey
• Packing Shipping Labels
• Picklist
• Picklist Cancel
• Picklist Shortage Print
• PO Receive Survey
• Production Non Routine Task Card
• Production Task Card
• Production Task Card Defer
• Proforma Invoice
• Regular Label

• Repair Order

• Requisition
• Requisition-AOG
• Requisition-Critical
• RI Survey
• RO Receive Survey
• Scrap Survey
• Shop Form 1
• Shop Non Routine Task Card
• Shop Task Card
• Transfer Order
• Transfer Picklist
• Unserviceable Label
• W/O ETOPS Conflicts
• W/O non effective Items
• W/O Task Card Survey

Requisition Type

The type of Requisition used to identify the purpose of the request. This field is only available when the following reports are selected:

• Requisition
• Requisition-AOG
• Requisition Critical

Default Printer for Report checkbox

Select this checkbox to have the report default to print to the user's default printer setup regardless of the printer system control setup. This checkbox will override whatever is set up in this window to be defaulted to the users default printer.

This field is available for every report except the 'W/O non Effective Items' report.

Is RFID Printer checkbox

Select this checkbox to specify that this is an RFID printer. Once this checkbox is selected, every time a user attempts to print that specific type of report at the specified location, the system will redirect to the printer and try to encode the RFID chip on the labels. For additional information on how to set up an RFID printer, refer to RFID Printer Setup via the Technical, Interface, TC Stylesheet page on iCentral.

This field is available for every report except the 'W/O non Effective Items' report.

Location

The Location for maintenance events, inventory stores, orders, transactions, or training events.

Site

The Location Site for the print. This field is only available when the following reports are selected:

• Shop Task Card
• Shop Non-Routine Task Card
• Production Task Card
• Production Non-Routine Task Card

Ship Via

Ship Via code and method to be used. This field is only available when the 'Packing and Shipping Documents' report is selected.

Computer Name

Computer from which the prints can be sent to the printer.

Priority

This field is a drop down menu with Priority options that derive via Settings transaction code: Priority. This field is only available when the following reports are selected:

• Picklist
• Picklist Cancel

Windows 95/98

The printer path for Windows 95.

NT/2000/XP

The printer path for NT.

Email

The reference Email. This field is available for every report except the 'Production Task Card' report.

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Select the Save button to save all above information.

Labels:

Through printer configurations, labels for Serviceable and Unserviceable parts can be sent to different printers depending on the Station in the A/C P/N Transaction window. In previous releases, only the part's location was considered. For more information refer to the A/C P/N Transaction via the Technical Records Training Manual.

Note: For this functionality to take place, Technical Records Switch ACPNSTA must be set to 'Yes'. For more information refer to the Technical Records Switches Manual.