Universal Printing is a printing
mechanism provided by SAS that supplies printing support for all
operating environments. It is especially helpful for those operating
environments in which printing can be a challenge. With Universal
Printing, you can direct output to printers attached to your local
area network, and you can use all the font and graphic capabilities
of those printers when you generate output.
With SAS Release 8.2,
Universal Printing became the default printing method in the
z/OS
windowing environment. It is also the default printing method used
to generate ODS (Output Delivery System) and
SAS/GRAPH output in all
mainframe environments. Universal Printing is not the default printing
method used to generate procedure output that is text based (such
as PROC PRINT output), unless ODS is also used.
Universal
Printing is also the default in the UNIX operating environment. It
is supported, but it is not the default, in the Microsoft Windows
operating environment.
Universal Printing produces
output in PostScript, PDF, PCL, GIF, or a file that is sent directly
to an output device.