-> Printer should be setup at the operating system level .Use lpstat –a command
and check if the printer is configured as OS level.

To check if printer is printing at OS level use the following command:

Lp -d

-> File name can be any text file (ex any .req file $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG directory)

-> Network team and firewall team may need to be involved if the printer is not accessible from OS level.Only after printer is accessible from OS level we can configure Pasta to use the printer.

Configuration:

-> The version of pasta can be checked from $FND_TOP/bin

FNDPSTAX is the executable program for pasta.

FNDPSTAX -v
Pasta version 3.0.4.0 - unicode/bidi printing utility.
Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1999-2003.

-> Pasta patch is provided as standard AD patch of Oracle Applications and it needs to be applied on the concurrent processing node.

-> Patch 3325651 provides the above pasta release.

-> Setting up your system to use Pasta is much simpler than the standard Oracle Applications printer setup procedure. The Printer Type, Printer Driver, and SRW driver files are provided. The only setup required to begin printing is the registration of the printer with Oracle E–Business Suite.

-> Pasta comes with default Printer type:

Responsibility: System Administrator Menu Path: Install->Printer->Type

--PASTA Universal Printer Type. We can use the same printer type or configure a new printer type.

-> Associate the printer type with different printers as required.

Responsibility: System Administrator Menu Path: Install->Printer->Register

Example :

* Login in As sysadmin
* Navigate => System Administrator => Install : Printer => Register

Printer :
Type : --PASTA Universal Printer Type
Description :

-> Pasta configuration files are located in $FND_TOP/resource directory.
Pasta looks for files pasta_.cfg file in the above directory.
If the file is not present it will look for the file pasta.cfg

-> You can change the file that is defined as the default configuration file for Pasta by using the –F command line parameter.

For example, suppose you create a PCL print–specific configuration file
named pcl.cfg. Set the FNDPSTAX command line option as follows: –Fpcl.cfg
Pasta will look for pcl_.cfg first, and if it is not found,
Pasta will use pcl.cfg as the default.

These files must be placed under the $FND_TOP/resource directory.
The –F command line parameter can be set in the Arguments field of
the Printer Drivers window.

Pasta_pdf.cfg is the file used by pasta to print pdf converted to postscript
By 3rd party utility.The driver name is PASTA_PDF.

Ex:
In pasta_pd.cfg : preprocess=pdf2ps {infile} {outfile}.

-> The configuration file Pasta.cfg file governs many printing options.The file is a simple ASCII text file.

Some important options :

1. OutputFormat = ps/text ( ps stands for printers which support postscript format and text stands for printers which doesnt support post script Format)
2. Preprocess = ( Ex: pdf2ps utility To convert pdf to postscript )
3. Printcommand = lp (Print command for unix platform)
4. Pagewidth
5. pageheight .

There are lot of other options which can be configured like fontname, font size.

Note :

* During first time setup of pasta make sure all the information regarding the Printer is available and OS level pringting is working (Using lp command) before configuring pasta.

* For most of the changes made to configuration files it is necessary to bounce concurrent manager for changes to take effect.

posted by Jaswinder Singh @ 10:37 AM

2 Comments:

At Saturday, December 19, 2009, 16GB SD Karte said…

There are some limitations when using PDF format in Apps 11i with Oracle Reports 6i, PDF output is supported for only Latin-1 character sets such as US7ASCII, WE8ISO8859P1 or WE8MSWIN1252. Any other single-byte, multi-byte or Unicode character set such as UTF8 or WE8ISO8859P15 is not supported. It is only supported when the XML Publisher product is installed and utilized. Another limitation is, you cannot print PDF directly from the concurrent manager. PDF is intended for viewing-only directly from Applications and can also be viewed and/or printed via an external PDF viewer.
At Monday, February 28, 2011, Anonymous said…

hi, new to the site, thanks.