SAP Note 10163 - Problems with invoice printing

Symptom

Invoice printing problems:
1. No invoices are printed during invoice printing run in batch input;
instead, only a list of the invoices is printed.
2. Online: no printing (e.g. invoice list not printed), but no
error message either.

Additional key words

Invoice printing, printing problems, form control, printer, batch, background, consultant

Cause and prerequisites

Re 1. a. Invoices had already been printed and "No repeat printing"
was specified in the report variant.
b. Selection criteria are too restrictive.
c. Problems with printing Customizing; because printing was
in batch, however, this is not readily apparent.
d. The batch input device has not been allocated to a
printer. This error does not appear Online, because the
terminal has been allocated to a printer.
Re 2. Incorrect customizing of invoice printing.

Solution
Re 1. Using an invoice from online selection, check causes 1 and 2
and, after any necessary correction to the Customizing
configuration, restart the invoice printing run with repeat
printing. In the case of d, in customizing Hospital-Services,
complete the input/output allocation 'printer' by entering '*'
where 'printer' is the output device, to which all
printing jobs go which are not clearly specified to an output
device. It is possible to enter and allocate all batch input
devices (instead of using '*').
Caution: In case in this table the entry ' ', ' ' is present, it has tobe deleted by means of an ABAP/4 program, since with the entry '*', 'printer' is bypassed.

With ISH Release 2.24, the selection fields 'printer' and 'terminal' have been newly organized for invoice printing. Especially, by using 'terminal' a pseudo-terminal can now be specially supported for invoice printing in the background. With correct customizing the above described problems may be avoided. Please see the report documentation (expanded help).

Re 2. Check the Customizing configuration. Typical error:

a. "Standard print" not specified everywhere; this specification has to be entered for each type of invoice as in
'Event-Organization level allocation' and 'Organization level (with/without conditions)'
b. The invoice printing for the list runs by 'Organization level without conditions', as opposed to individual invoices. Thus there may not be any entry present for the organization level RECH_02 in the column 'Type of organization level', as opposed to the individual invoices.