Knowledge Management

Question:
Hi all,
Could any of you throw some light on how we can prevent printing of a duplicater PO, once a PO has been printed and sent to vendor? (Else, through'repeat output' you can send it over and again)
Thanks and regards
Liz
Answer:
The main reason for the repeat output button is to recreate the document, but why should one do that over and over again and send then the document by mail? For me it means that this is work, and I am ususally very lazy as many users are.
However, the purchase order number does not change. And with the right software, your vendor should be able to identify such as double.
There is a option in SPAD. Enter output device, then click the button output device in front of the line. Field is case sensitive.
Then go to tab output attributes. In the second dropdown you can disable printing of copies by setting it to Only pass one copy to host spool system.
This stops printing copies by hardware, but is not limited to purchase order copies, it has certainly effect on all SAP documents printing on the specific printer. For non of them you are able to print a copy then.