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It depends on your platform. Sample code is included below for the various platforms. Be sure to verify that the code works for your local operating environment, because some details can differ.

In the following examples, the user's local printer is known to the operating system as "BldgBPrinter." This is a printer name that the operating system knows, not a printer name that SAS knows.

MVS

Define a SYSOUT= fileref and print to that:

filename local sysout=a dest=BldgBPrinter;
ods printer file=local;

Note: Some users have tried defining the SYSOUT= in JCL rather than the FILENAME statement. Although this seems right, and it works in v8.2, it does not work correctly in v8.0 or v8.1. Use the FILENAME statement instead in v8.0 or v8.1.

CMS

Use code like this:

cms remote prt BldgBPrinter (devtype vafp;
filename local printer;
ods printer file=local;

VMS

Use a printer fileref, like so:

filename local printer passall=yes queue=BldgBPrinter;
ods printer file=local;

UNIX

Just set up a pipe fileref to your print command.
(I believe that NLP here is a quirky local command; it's probably called LPR on your system.)

filename local pipe "nlp -d BldgBPrinter";
ods printer file=local;

Windows

This is easy. If you merely want to print to your default printer, all you need is

ods printer;

That's it!

If you want to print to a nondefault Windows printer, it's nearly as simple. Just use the printer name that you would normally use; for example, if your departmental printer is called "Don's printer" when you use a Windows program to print, just use that name (without using the SAS or PS options):

ods printer printer="Don's printer";

To find out what printers are available, select Start -> Settings -> Printers under Windows. If a printer is listed there, you can use it on the ODS PRINTER statement. If the printer name has spaces (and they usually do), then you must put the name in quotation marks.

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