Usage Note 24216: What is Universal Printing, and when am I using it?
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In Release 8.1, SAS introduced Universal Printing, which enables the SAS drivers to print with the same functionality that has long been available to the PC host drivers. That is, as in Windows, now you can automatically route PostScript, PCL, and PDF output to a printer or to a file. ODS PRINTER was the first client of Universal Printing, beginning with Version 8, before Universal Printing's general release. For additional information, see Universal Printing topics in SAS Language Reference: Concepts in the SAS online documentation. See also the Universal Printing topics on the Base SAS focus area.
The following table shows which ODS destinations use Universal Printing. The default values for SAS printer definitions such as PCL5 are stored in the SAS Registry. To open the Registry Editor, select Solutions > Accessories > Registry Editor or issue the REGEDIT command. Then select CORE > PRINTING > PRINTERS.
For more information about the SAS drivers and the PC host drivers under the ODS PRINTER destination, see SAS Note 23414 about the PRINTER= option. To read about the UNIVERSALPRINT (alias UPRINT) and associated UPRINTMENUSWITCH startup options, see SAS online documentation.
| Destination | Printing API | Default Printer Definition |
|---|---|---|
| ODS HTML | N/A | N/A |
| ODS MARKUP | N/A | N/A |
| ODS OUTPUT (data sets) | N/A | N/A |
| ODS PCL | Universal Printing | PCL5 |
| ODS PDF | Universal Printing | |
| ODS PRINTER PCL | Universal Printing | PCL5 |
| ODS PRINTER PDF | Universal Printing | |
| ODS PRINTER PDFMARK | Universal Printing | |
| ODS PRINTER PS | Universal Printing | POSTSCRIPT |
| ODS PRINTER SAS | Universal Printing | Current PRINTERPATH value |
| ODS PRINTER
without the PCL, PDF, PDFMARK, PS, or SAS options, under any platform other than Windows |
Universal Printing | Current PRINTERPATH value |
| ODS PRINTER
without the PCL, PDF, PDFMARK, PS, or SAS options, under Windows |
Windows printing API | Current Windows printer |
| ODS PRINTER
without the PCL, PDF, PDFMARK, PS, or SAS options, under Windows with UNIVERSALPRINT startup option |
Universal Printing | Current PRINTERPATH value |
| ODS PS | Universal Printing | POSTSCRIPT |
| ODS RTF under any operating system other than Windows | Measures by using the Universal Printing fonts and the RTF MEASUREMENT printer | RTF MEASUREMENT |
| ODS RTF under Windows | Measures by using the Windows fonts and the current default Windows printer | Current Windows printer |
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Reported Release | Fixed Release* |
| SAS System | Base SAS | All | n/a |
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | low |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> ODS (Output Delivery System) System Administration ==> Printing |
| Date Modified: | 2007-10-18 13:28:16 |
| Date Created: | 2005-02-08 11:06:39 |