Printing directly to a printer from an ABAP program

[Former Member]

Hello,

In my ABAP program, I have a string that contains ZPL code. I'd like to send that string directly to a label printer. If I were to take that string and copy it into a text file called LABEL.TXT and then run "COPY C:\LABEL.TXT LPT1" from a command prompt, the label prints successfully. I'm looking for the same kind of functionality from within ABAP. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you,

[former_member194669]

Try this way

1. Using fm GUI_DOWNLOAD please download to C;

2. Call fm GUI_RUN with COMMAND = 'copy c:lable.txt lpt1'

PS : I am not 100% sure about this.

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[Former Member]

I tried using GUI_RUN but I get an error saying file doesn't exist. I think it is looking for the actual COPY.EXE file and it can't find it.

Isn't there a way to print directly to the printer in ABAP using the PRINT and PRINT-CONTROL commands?

thank you

[Former Member]

I tried this but nothing prints:

DATA: PARAMS LIKE PRI_PARAMS,

VALID TYPE C.

CALL FUNCTION 'GET_PRINT_PARAMETERS'

IMPORTING OUT_PARAMETERS = PARAMS

VALID = VALID.

IF VALID <> SPACE.

NEW-PAGE PRINT ON PARAMETERS PARAMS NO-DIALOG.

WRITE / MY_LABEL.

NEW-PAGE PRINT OFF.

ENDIF.

[Former Member]

hi i had a requirement where when u execute the report it should directly go to the printer , can anybody help me

regards

bhanu