Lock & Unlock a Printer
1. Go to transaction code SPAD. Double click on the printer. Select Device Attributes tab and check Lock Printer in SAP system to lock or unchecked to unlock.
Lock & Unlock Multiple Printers
1. Go to transaction code SPAD. Go to Utilities > For output devices > Export devices.
2. When you reached into the below screen, do and select as per below screenshot. Under File system info, fill in the directory of your local computer (a text file will generated into this directory). As an example, just put C:\printers.txt. Choose Frontend computer. For Operation, select Export. For Options, select Execute export. For Objects for export, you can select from your listed printers available or you just can put * to select all the printers. Click execute.
3. Go to the directory that you entered earlier. Open the generated file. Look for PADISABLED. To lock, set PADISABLED = “X”. To unlock set PADISABLED = “”.
VERSION = "0.1"
TIME = "20120201123614"
SYSTEM = "xxx"
RELEASE = "701"
* DEVICE = {
NAME = "LP01"
PADEST = "LP01"
PATYPE = "HPLJIIID"
PADISABLED = ""
4. Now, you can import back the saved file to the SAP system.
