Usage Note 24216: What is Universal Printing, and when am I using it?
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 |
PDF |
| ODS PRINTER
PCL |
Universal
Printing |
PCL5 |
| ODS PRINTER
PDF |
Universal
Printing |
PDF |
| ODS PRINTER
PDFMARK |
Universal
Printing |
PDF |
| 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
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| 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 |
