If you have lots of printers (50 or more) and need to lock them for
maintenance, you can used this mass locked printers tips to locked or unlocked
all the SAP printers at one go.
To mass Lock all the printer in SAP:
Go to transaction code SPAD
On top of the screen menu click Utilities -> For
output devices -> Export devices
On the screen Import and Export of Device
Descriptions:
Export/Import file name: c:\temp\printer.txt
Frontend computer: Tick
Export: Tick
Export Export: Tick
Output device: Choose the Selection options Pattern
and type a * (* for all or a* for all
printers starting with a)
Click the Execute button
Open the text file do a replace all of PADISABLED =
"" to PADISABLED = "X"
Then import the same file.
or
Another way is to go through each output device in SPAD and click on 'Lock
Printer in SAP System' which is in the
DeviceAttributes tab
