Maintaining Print Styles

Use Print Style Maintenance to define the price printing options for order documents. The print styles defined in Print Style Maintenance are used throughout the order entry system. For example, from the purchase order header screen, the system uses these print styles as options for the Print Style field.

Your installer is responsible for defining print styles. Work with your installer to set up any special print styles at the time of installation. To define print styles for forms that you send via e-mail, set the Default E-mail Print Statusescontrol maintenance record.

To maintain print styles:

  1. From the System > System Files > Printer Setup menu, select Print Style Maintenance to display the Print Style Maintenance screen.

Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.

  1. In the Print Style field, select a print style from the displayed list.

The screen displays the print style's header information in the following fields.

Field

Description

AltDesc

Whether this print style uses the product's alternate description.

AllGens

Whether this print style applies to all generations of the order.

Description

The description of the print style.

The screen also displays the following information for each column defined for the print style:

Field

Description

Column #

The column number of data displayed in this style.

Start Pos

The start position of characters in that column.

Format

Whether the characters are right or left justified followed by the pound sign (#) and the number of characters that can print.

Basis

The print style basis displayed in the column.

These can be the global basis names from Price Line Maintenance, or other basis set up on your system. For a list of bases, see the section below.

Extend

Whether the column's characters can be extended.

Heading

The heading for the column.

  1. Edit the fields as needed.

  2. Press Esc to save the changes.

Print Style Basis

Your system may include the following print style bases, depending on the forms your company uses. The following table describes how each basis is used by printed forms:

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Global Basis Names

The price derived from the global basis names from Price Line Maintenance that are used to price items.

Cust Net

The final price paid by the customer.

Blind

A Blank column for the item.

Blind Sub

Like Blind, above, but shows subtotals.

Dft Retail

The price that would have been paid without special pricing. This is the same as Sales Order Entry's "Pricing" view.

Basis Desc

The basis on which the price was based, or the local basis name.

Formula

The formula used to determine a price.

Multiplier

The arithmetic expressions, such as addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), and division / used to determine the price.

Discount %

The discount the customer received.

UoM

The pricing unit of measure, or the price per from the Product Price Sheet Maintenance screen.

Orig Price

The price paid without discount.

Order Cogs

The value the inventory is relieved of.

Order Comm

The value used to calculate margins for commissions.

Unit Price

The final price paid by the customer.

Qty UM Prc

The Pricing quantity from Product Maintenance or Price Line Maintenance.

Prc UM Prc

The pricing unit of measure, or the Price Per from the Product Price Sheet Maintenance screen. The column shows the price plus the unit of measure, such as, 100.00c.

Buy UM

The unit of measure set up in Product Maintenance for purchasing.

Showroom

Showroom price.

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